Siguranța

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title: "Siguranța" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1908-in-romania", "20th-century-in-romania", "defunct-romanian-intelligence-agencies", "law-enforcement-agencies-of-romania", "secret-police", "kingdom-of-romania"] description: "Pre-Cold War Romanian secret police" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siguranța" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Pre-Cold War Romanian secret police ::

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Field	Value
agencyname	Directorate of Police and General Safety
nativename	Direcția Poliției și Siguranței Generale
commonname	Siguranța Statului
logo	File:Kingdom of Romania - Medium CoA.svg
logocaption	Middle coat of arms of the Kingdom of Romania, used by state authorities.
formedyear	1908
formedmonthday	March 25
dissolved	30 August 1948
superseding	Department of State Security
country	Kingdom of Romania
countryabbr	ROU
national	Yes
headquarters	Bucharest
secret	Yes
parentagency	Ministry of Administration and Interior
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Siguranța was the generic name for the successive secret police services in the Kingdom of Romania. The official title of the organization changed throughout its history, with names including Directorate of the Police and General Safety (), the Secret Intelligence Service (), the Special Intelligence Service () or simply the Intelligence Service (),

History

Created in 1908, in the aftermath of a major peasant revolt, it acted as a political police, monitoring, infiltrating and trying to dismantle political groupings considered undesirable by the government. Changing its structure several times during the first half of the 20th century, it was disbanded in 1948, when Romania became a people's republic. Siguranța's role, as well as many of its employees, were integrated into the newly founded Department of State Security ("Securitate").

Around 1924, Siguranța secret intelligence assassinated a leader of the militant wing of the Romanian Communist Party. The victim was also the brother of dedicated Communist Elizaveta Zarubina, soon to become one of the USSR's most crucial agents. A secret policeman came to her apartment in Bucharest later the same year to arrest her; he was subsequently shot by Zarubina, attracting the attention of top Soviet intelligence officials.

References

References

1. Soldatov, Andreĭ. (8 October 2019). "The compatriots : the brutal and chaotic history of Russia's exiles, emigrés, and agents abroad". PublicAffairs.

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