FUNCTIONING OF ROMANIAN INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE IN TRANSNISTRY (1941–1944) (ACCORDING TO THE SBU MATERIALS)

Abstract

The article aims to elucidate the unknown aspect – the establishment, development and investigation of Soviet special services Romanian intelligence and counterintelligence agencies acting in Bucovyna governorate, Transnistria (1941 – 1944). On the basis of unknown and little-known documents, the administrative-territorial, intra-organizational structure of the Romanian special bodies, their personnel structure, main directions and principles of activity are revealed. The article aims to elucidate the unknown aspect – the establishment, development and investigation of Soviet special services Romanian intelligence and counterintelligence agencies acting in Bucovyna governorate, Transnistria (1941–1944). Due to newly discovered, recently secret materials of Branch State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine in Bukovyna governorate and Transnistria it was managed to establish the functioning of an inspectorate of safety (“Inspectorul de siguranţă”), a police department (“Kesture de Police”), a department of gendarmerie (“Inspectoratul al Jandarmeriei”), the Military Security Division of the Romanian Army (“Military siguranţă”). On the basis of these documents administrative-territorial, internal organizational structure of Romanian intelligence and counterintelligence bodies were reconstructed, the main principles of operation and activities were highlighted. At the same time, it can be stated that Romanian law enforcement agencies carried out effective, coordinated (despite the fact that quite often the functions of these bodies were duplicated) intelligence and counterintelligence work on the territory of Bukovyna governorate and Transnistria. At the same time, we can say that the Romanian law enforcement agencies in the territory of the Bukovina Governorate and Transnistria carried out effective, coordinated (despite the fact that the functions of these bodies were often duplicated) intelligence and counterintelligence work.