NID: ROMANIA: NEW REGIME CONSOLIDATING SECURITY

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe: A 30-Year Legacy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06826839
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 26, 2019
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2019
• Publication Date: December 28, 1989

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ROMANIA: New Regime Consolidating Security
The government continues to make limited progress in eliminating the
threat from Securitate diehards, but Romanians are increasin I �
skeptical of Communist dominance of the new government.
On Tuesday, the new government put internal security forces and
border guards under the Defense Ministry and set a new deadline for
the Securitate troops to surrender. The government is also calling on
civilians to turn in all arms issued to defeat Nicolac Ccausescu.
nearly half of an estimated
200 Securitate members in Timisoara were dead, captured, or had
escaped.
Meanwhile, Vice President Mazilu said yesterday Romania is no
longer a Communist state. His statement may have been prompted
by a student demonstration nn Tuesday protesting the refusal by
government officials in the southern city of Craiova to meet with
student leaders and the exclusion of younger prodemocracy leaders
from government posts in Bucharest and other cities.
Comment: The new government is seeking a modus vivendi with
internal security troops scattered throughout the country.
o end
the threat ot countercoups and to restore order. In some eases, it
probably will offer amnesty in exchange for early surrender, while
pursuing aggressive military action in the streets to satisfy the
public's demands for retribution.
The public's willingness to surrender newly acquired arms,
meanwhile, will oe an indicator of its trust in the new government.
Detnobstrators continue to complain about the makeup of the
government and probably will not be placated by Mazilu's
declaration. Non-Communists probably will have to be included in
its top leadership to prevent larger protests as thc �tuphoria over
Ceausescu's overthrow begins to subside.
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Romania: Ceausescu-Era Remnants Turning Up
In and Around New Government
The success that Ceausescu-cra hardliners have had in ingratiating themselves with the
National Salvation Front is contributing to growing public skepticism of the Front.
Former Prime Minister Ilie Verdet, who is married to Nicolae Ceausescu's sister, has been
named to the Provisional Leadership Council tit.: Front's executive body.
Col. Gen. Iullan Vlad, who once serred as military aide to Ceausescu and had been head of
the Securitate�the secret police�since 1987, is functioning at the new Defense Ministry.
Vlad called on his former subordinates to cease fighting after he surrendered to the Army on
23 December.
Former Prime Minister Constantin Dascalescu has been consulting with Verdet and Vlad.
Dascalescu was a member of the party's elite Permanent Bureau and
administered the hated program of vil age destruction.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Gheorghe Oprea denied to the press that more than
a handful of people had been killed in the uprising, changing his tune only after the tide of
the rebellion turned. Afterward, Oprea
said that Ceausescu deserved to die and that he tatended to return from
talks with Turkish economic officials to join the Front.
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