THE RELATIONS OF THE SECURITATE WITH SIMILAR STRUCTURES OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION. FROM INFORMATION EXCHANGES TO ISOLATION
THE RELATIONS OF THE SECURITATE WITH SIMILAR STRUCTURES OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION. FROM INFORMATION EXCHANGES TO ISOLATION

Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to present a perspective on the collaboration of Romanian security and information services with similar structures in the Warsaw Treaty Organization countries during the Cold War.The assumptions made by the article are: the absence of a study exclusively dedicated to the problem; the possibility of researching documents from physical or virtual archives recently declassified and given for research; the importance of exchanges of information in the work of Cold War security and intelligence services; Romania’s effectiveness in exchanging information with partner countries and the impact on national security; the inefficiency of the inter-institutional collaboration between the Romanian intelligence and security services with similar structures due to the political oscillations in Bucharest.From the analysis of the available scientific material, exchanges of information between the Securitate and the homologous services of the Warsaw Treaty Organization experienced oscillating periods, from constant information exchanges to some sporadic ones, and by the end of the Cold War these exchanges did not exist. Lack of institutional collaboration was a factor for which the Securitate was de-institutionalized as an institution in December 1989, influencing Romania's evolution as a state on the international stage.The dissolution of security and intelligence services at key moments of a state's history is not a desirable scenery for the security of that state, in my opinion this is rather the biggest vulnerability of that state.

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