Secret Police Watching the Guests and the Foreign Students of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Romania at the End of the 20th Century Cover Image

A református egyház vendégeinek és külföldi teológiai hallgatóinak megfigyelése Romániában, a 20. század második felében
Secret Police Watching the Guests and the Foreign Students of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Romania at the End of the 20th Century

II. Surveillance Priorities of the Communist Secret Police (Securitate)

Author(s): Dezső Buzogány
Subject(s): History of Church(es), Recent History (1900 till today), Theology and Religion, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Erdélyi Református Egyházkerület
Keywords: Securitate (political police);Secret Services;Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj-Napoca;

Summary/Abstract: During the Communist regime, in the sixties of the 20th century, the Protestant Theological Seminary started the student exchange program with churches and institutions from the Western part of Europe, mainly the Dutch Reformed Churches. It was in 1968 when the first Dutch couple came to spend one study year in the Seminary. After them students have been arriving each year until the end of the eighties. Coming from a capitalist, “unfriendly” country, the Dutch students have always been watched at by the Securitate (Secret Police) very carefully. Many informers were recruited from among the Reformed pastors as well as seminary professors to control the whole study process of the foreigners. The documents included into this paper are perfect samples of how the Secret Police usually acted

  • Issue Year: 106/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 308-319
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian