Eu as propune perioada imediat dupa decembrie 1994. De ce tocmai atunci?
Fiindca la sfarsitul anului 1994 Roland Vasilievici (fost ofiter de securitate, Dir I, Timis) a dezvaluit mai multe detalii importante in legatura cu decembrie 1989, mai ales despre teroristii, pe postul de televiziune TVT ’89… (e foarte interesant ca dezvaluirile lui Vasilevici despre securitatea si preoti ortodoxi sunt luate drept adevarate– de exemplu,
William Totok, Constrangerea memoriei: Insemnari, documente, amintiri (Polirom 2001), pp. 186-187.
Religion and politics in post-communist Romania – Google Books Result
Former Securitate officer Roland Vasilievici (directly responsible for recruiting priests for the Timis ̧oara branch from 1976 to 1986) explained how the …
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VICTOR BIRSANNT Membru GDS, reprezentant in Romania al Asociatiei Crestine pentru Abolirea Torturii
c) O exceptie de luat in seama o constituie seria declaratiilor lui Roland Vasilievici, de la TVT 89 (un post TV independent din Timisoara, care, din pacate, poate fi receptat numai in vecinatatea orasului), din martie 1995. Roland Vasilievici, fost colonel de Securitate, acum pensionat, a facut la TVT’89 o prezentare detaliata a sistemului represiv al fostei Securitati. Reactii deosebit de puternice nu au intirziat sa apara. Fostul lui sef, Radu Tinu, comandant al Securitatii in judetul Timis, a intrat in studioul TV, a incercat sa-l determine sa nu mai vorbeasca si a inceput sa-l ridiculizeze. (Informatia este preluata de la Deutsche Welle, departamentul romanesc,reporter Marcia Mohs, 7.03.1995, ora 20). Colonelul Vasilievici a scris a serie de articole pe aceasta tema in revista Timisoara.
http://www.scritube.com/istorie/REVOLUTIA-DIN-TIMISOARA122191713.php
dar aproape nimeni n-a luat in discutie dezvaluirile lui Vasilievici despre decembrie 1989:
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“ORWELLIAN…POSITIVELY ORWELLIAN:”
PROSECUTOR VOINEA’S CAMPAIGN TO SANITIZE
THE ROMANIAN REVOLUTION OF DECEMBER 1989
by Richard Andrew Hall
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Admission II:
The Revelations of former Timisoara Securitate officer Roland Vasilevici
Two months after the violence that marked Ceausescu’s overthrow—when in Bucharest the official and media rehabilitation of the USLA was already underway (discussed farther down)—a three-part series entitled “Piramida Umbrelor [Pyramid of Shadows]” appeared in the cultural/political Timisoara weekly, Orizont on 2, 9, and 16 March 1990. The articles appeared under the name “Puspoki F.,” but it was clear from the text of the articles that the author must have some connection to the former Securitate or Militia, because he described the inner workings of these organs in their dealings with Pastor Laszlo Tokes, a focal point of the uprising against the Ceausescu regime, and their actions once protests began outside his residence on 15-16 December 1989. Significantly, the author related the responsibilities and actions of the USLA, including their weaponry, munitions (including “special cartridges”), clothing, and physical disposition—details which were later to be substantiated elsewhere. It was pretty clear in his discussion of the USLA and the “Comando” unit (a likely reference to the USLAC) that he believed them to have been the “terrorists” who had claimed so many lives.
In 1991, a 140 plus page book published in Timisoara, also entitled Piramida Umbrelor,
appeared. Its author was Roland Vasilevici. William Totok later interviewed Vasilevici in 1995, and it turned out that Vasilevici had worked for the Securitate unit that surveilled “culte [churches]” (he was specifically responsible for Roman Catholic churches) in Timisoara under the command of Radu Tinu.[69] The book included (lightly-edited) the passages that had originally appeared under the name “Puspoki F.” in Orizont and further elaborated on them. It is pretty clear that Vasilevici was the original source of those articles.
The March 1990 Orizont series was and has been pretty much ignored in Romania—except among the former Securitate. From jail, Radu Tinu, the Timis County Deputy Securitate chief, sought to counter the accusations “during March 1990, in the weekly “Orizont” in which a certain Puspok accused me of nationalism.”[70] In March 1992, retired Securitate Colonel Ion Lemnaru wrote in Spionaj-Contraspionaj about the 1990 pamphlet of Romeo Vasiliu, “Piramida Umbrelor,” identifying the author as Roland Vasilevici, publishing Vasilevici’s address, and then citing an extended section of the text of the pamphlet (identical to what is in the March 1990 Orizont article). The section that is cited precisely concerns allegations about the USLA’s role in the Timisoara repression and terrorism—it is this that is clearly the focus of Colonel Lemnaru’s ire.[71]
When Vasilevici was preparing to release his book, he maintained that he was “receiving many threatening and ‘dead line’ phone calls in the middle of the night.”[72] He said two to three cars were posted outside his residence, and that he was accosted by six individuals when was on his way to the police station to file a complaint. A former colleague informed him that he “had been contacted by the same Radu Tinu [by now out of jail] and was instructed to alert the network with the goal of by all means impeding the publication of the book.” According to the Cuvintul interviewer, when he spoke to Vasilevici by phone, Vasilevici was “very scared…such a man generally does not panic so easily.” When in December 1994, Vasilevici went on a local Timisoara television channel, Radu Tinu showed up at the station attempting to interrupt the transmission of the broadcast![73]
On the question of the existence of the “terrorists,” Radu Tinu would agree with Prosecutor Dan Voinea: “There were no terrorists! They [those who seized power and were on TV] invented them…”[74]
[69] William Totok, Constangerea memoriei. Insemnari, documente, amintiri (Bucharest: Polirom, 2001), pp. 186-203.
[70] The Europa interview from 1991 appears in Bacescu, Din Nou in Calea Navalirilor Barbare, 1994, p. 67.
[71] Col. (r) Ion Lemnaru, “Piramida de minciuni a lui Roland Vasilevici,” Spionaj-Contraspionaj, no. 24 (March 1992), p. 7a. It appears that after “Puspoki F.,” Vasilevici adopted the pseudonym “Romeo Vasiliu” in publishing his revelations in pamphlet form.
[72] Roland Vasilevici, interview with Mireca Iovan, Cuvintul, no. 119 (May 1992), p. 8.
[73] See Romania Libera, 28 December 1994, p. 3. It appears that during this interview Vasilevici invoked the presence of Libyans and their spiriting out of the country immediately after the events—for the discussion of this incident see below.
[74] See Tinu’s comments in the 13 August 2006 posting of a Radio Impact interview by Gabriel Argeseanu with Radu Tinu from 18 February 1999 at www.agonia.ro/index.php/article/198457/index.html.
[75] “Dezvaluiri despre implicarea USLA in evenimentele din decembrie ’89,” Romania Libera, 28 December 1994, p.3
[76] Teodor Filip, a former USLA officer, was apparently intrigued enough by this article that he went to the trouble of tracking down the identity of the correspondent of the dispatch. According to Filip, the correspondent was Sterie Petrescu, who Filip claims was later expelled by both AM Press (Dolj) and Romania Libera for printing “scandalous disinformation,” and removed in 1996 from his position as head of Dolj County for the anti-Iliescu regime “Civic Alliance,” after which he had legal motions lodged against him. Filip claims immediately after the above dispatch came out, he published rejoinders in the daily Crisana Plus. In those responses, he rejected the claims of the dispatch in their entirety. According to Filip: “during the December 1989 events, not a single member of USLA was dispatched into the field…[and] the USLA did not commit a single act [of repression] against demonstrators [! See the discussion below on this issue]” See Teodor Filip, Secretele USLA (Craiova: Editura Obiectiv, 1998), pp. 109-111.
Bullets, Lies, and Videotape:
The Amazing, Disappearing Romanian Counter-Revolution of December 1989
by Richard Andrew Hall, Ph.D.
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I am an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. I have been a CIA analyst since 2000. Prior to that time, I had no association with CIA outside of the application process.
Those Who Have Told Us the Truth [1]
As opposed to the aforementioned Vladimir Belis, Pavel Corut, and Dan Voinea, all of whom who have strenuously and repeatedly denied the existence and use in December 1989 of atypical munitions of dum-dum bullets and vidia bullets, there exist those who have told us of the existence and use of these in December 1989.[2] They are essentially, for lack of a better term, former Securitate whistleblowers, who have admitted the Securitate’s role in providing the “terrorists” who caused so much destruction, mayhem, and loss of life in those days.
For years I have been essentially the sole researcher inside or outside the country familiar with and promoting the claims of 1) former Timisoara Securitate Directorate I officer Roland Vasilevici—who published his claims about December 1989 under the byline of Puspoki F. in the Timisoara political-cultural weekly Orizont in March 1990 and under the pseudonym “Romeo Vasiliu”—and 2) an anonymous USLA recruit who told his story to AM Press Dolj (published on the five year anniversary of the events in Romania Libera 28 December 1994…ironically (?) next to a story about how a former Securitate official attempted to interrupt a private television broadcast in which Roland Vasilevici was being interviewed in Timisoara about Libyan involvement in December 1989).
Vasilevici claimed in those March 1990 articles and in a 140 page book that followed—both the series and the book titled Pyramid of Shadows—that the USLA and Arab commandos were the “terrorists” of December 1989. What is particularly noteworthy in light of the above discussion about “exploding [dum-dum] bullets” was his claim that the USLA and the foreign students who supplemented them “used special cartridges which upon hitting their targets caused new explosions” [emphasis added]—in other words, exploding or dum-dum bullets.[3]
As I have pointed out, despite the short shrift given these two revelations by Romanian media and Romanianists, one group has paid close attention: the former Securitate. That is not accidental.[5]
[1] This section borrows heavily from Hall 2008 and Hall 2006.
[2] In addition to these videos, I have thus far accumulated 45 mentions/claims of use of dum-dum and/or vidia bullets in December 1989. These include the testimonies of doctors who treated the wounded, but also military officers—not just recruits—who are familiar with ballistics. Separately, I also have accumulated 36 mentions/claims of people who were either killed or wounded by such atypical munitions during the events. Significantly, these include people killed or wounded prior to 22 December 1989 as well as after, and they are from multiple cities and a variety of locations for both periods—suggesting not accident, but a well-executed plan by the repressive forces of the Ceausescu regime, the Securitate and their foreign mercenary allies. See Hall 2008 for some of these.
[3] Puspoki F., “Piramida Umbrelor (III),” Orizont (Timisoara), no. 11 (16 March 1990) p.4, and Roland Vasilevici, Piramida Umbrelor (Timisoara: Editura de Vest, 1991), p. 61.
[4] “Dezvaluiri despre implicarea USLA in evenimentele din decembrie ’89,” Romania Libera, 28 December 1994, p.3.
[5] For the discussion of the former Securitate response to those who have violated the code of silence, see Hall, “Orwellian…Positively Orwellian,” http://homepage.mac.com/khallbobo/RichardHall/pubs/Voineaswar091706.html .
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De mult, credeam ca dezvaluirile despre teroristi (publicate pe 28 decembrie 1994 in ziarul Romania Libera) erau legate cu faptul ca cinci ani–deci o perioada fix–s-au trecut de la decembrie 1989. Dar acum, banuiesc ca era mai probabil o reactie la dezvaluirile lui Vasilievici care au migrat in presa centrala de pe malul Dambovitiei mai devreme in luna decembriei 1994. (Vasilievici a deschis usa, si acest fost uslas a urmat). A fost o sansa–poate ca ultima–pentru adevarul despre decembrie 1989, si mai ales despre teroristii, sa fie anchetat serios si discutat de catre ziaristi romani–din nenorocire, sansa a fost ratata.
The anonymous USLA recruit stated separately, but similarly:
I was in Timisoara and Bucharest in December ’89. In addition to us [USLA] draftees, recalled professionals, who wore black camouflage outfits, were dispatched. Antiterrorist troop units and these professionals received live ammunition. In Timisoara demonstrators were shot at short distances. I saw how the skulls of those who were shot would explode. I believe the masked ones, using their own special weapons, shot with exploding bullets. In January 1990, all the draftees from the USLA troops were put in detox. We had been drugged. We were discharged five months before our service was due to expire in order to lose any trace of us. Don’t publish my name. I fear for me and my parents. When we trained and practiced we were separated into ‘friends’ and ‘enemies.’ The masked ones were the ‘enemies’ who we had to find and neutralize. I believe the masked ones were the ‘terrorists’.[4] [emphases added]
In schimb, n-au fost investighate sau studiate dezvaluirile lui Vasilievici…aveam de a face in 1995 cu “cercetarea” de genul lui Cornel Ivanciuc in “22”–tot Vladimir Tismaneanu si Maria Bucur-Deckard m-au sfatuit sa consultez articole lui Ivanciuc din “22”–de ce? fiindca “22” a fost o revista credibila !…numai ca Ivanciuc s-a dovedit sa fie…un fost informator al Securitatii care scria tezele fostei securitatii…vai de capul meu!…cititi aici:
The Archive of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 