Politica de cadre și structura organelor de securitate pe teritoriul actual al județului Alba (1948-1968)
Cadre Policy and Structure of the Securitate Bodies on the Current Territory of Alba County (1948-1968)

Summary/Abstract: Our study is a scientific undertaking by which we wish to make available a work tool to the researchers interested in local issues associated with the history of the Communist period, mainly those whose studies also present data on the interference of the Securitate bodies. Similarly, the material also wishes to be one of local history (county), having the purpose of increasing the level of historical knowledge based on the subject of Alba county during the Communist period. The study mainly focuses on detailing the organisation of the Securitate on the current territory of Alba County in the first two decades of the Communist regime. We consider both the territorial structures (county bodies and then district-related) and sub-structural departments within them. At the same time, the material is complemented by presentment of the informative or operative features of departments referred to and presentation of officers or non-commissioned officers that led them throughout time. Between 1948 and 1968, the structural forms of the Securitate in the remembered area underwent frequent modifications, triggered both by the four administrative-territorial reorganisations of the country (which caused that the current territory of Alba County to be successively and/or at the same time on the territory of five regions: Sibiu, Cluj, Hunedoara, Mureş and Stalin/Braşov) as well as the two reorganisations of the Securitate bodies throughout the country. Similarly, in the first part of the study, we also detailed the organisation of Siguranța (intelligence service) in the same area, between 1945 and 1948. In 1948, when D.G.S.P. (General Directorate for the Security of the People) was established, in the area were set up S.J.S.P. Alba (Alba County Department of the Security of the People) and S.J.S.P. Târnava Mică (Târnava Mică County Department of the Security of the People), both subordinated to D.R.S.P. Sibiu (Sibiu Regional Directorate of the Security of the People). In its turn, S.J.S.P. Alba had the authority over Abrud, Aiud and Sebeș Bureaus, while Câmpeni and Războieni Bureaus belonged to S.J.S.P. Turda and Cugir Bureau to S.J.S.P. Hunedoara. In 1951, in the area were established the Alba Iulia District Department and Aiud, Blaj, Câmpeni and Sebeș District Bureaus. From 1952 and until 1968, only four districts existed: Alba Iulia, Aiud, Câmpeni and Sebeș, whose structural rank varied upwards and downwards from bureau to department and/or service over time. Also existed variations as concerns the internal departments of county/district structures from the area, yet without being significant. Always and all over existed sub-structures of Domestic intelligence, that carried out the main informative-operative activity of the Securitate inland. To these, added departments of Counter-Sabotage, Investigations and Counter-Espionage, yet they did not exist all over and during the whole period until 1968. In parallel with the development of organisational modifications, we also presented more aspects of the cadre policy, focusing mainly on leading cadres, as they have significantly left a mark also on how subordinated employees carried out their activity. Similarly, we also emphasised the presentation of some cadres that were rapidly promoted after they ”distinguished” by violent, repressive activities that they participated in, inclusively extrajudicial killings.

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