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Published: 1st January 2001An account of the secret police in Eastern Europe before and after 1989, this book uses a wide range of sources, including archives, to identify what has and has not changed since the end of communism. After explaining the structure and workings of two of the area's most feared services, Czechoslovakia's StB and Romania's Securitate, the authors details the creation of new security intelligence institutions, the development of contacts with the West, and forms of democratic control.
`This is an engagingly written and extremely topical book that sheds new light on the important relationship between political transition and the reform of security services. The authors explore the concept of security intelligence and place the discussion of post-Communist Europe within the wider context of transitions from authoritarian rule and security-sector reform. The substantive chapters on Czech, Slovak and Romanian security services are extremely well researched and shed new light on the intricate details of security reform; one cannot find this detailed information elsewhere in English-language sources. This is an important and informative book.' - Charles King, Ion Ratui Chair of Romanian Studies, Georgetown University
| List of Abbreviations | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What is security intelligence? | p. 1 |
| Comparative framework for control and oversight | p. 4 |
| Complaints procedures | p. 16 |
| Post-communism's specificities | p. 17 |
| The StB in Czechoslovakia, 1945-89 | p. 24 |
| The origin of a political police | p. 27 |
| Deviations from the political-police identity | p. 30 |
| The informer legions | p. 32 |
| The extent of surveillance and persecution | p. 37 |
| Major operations against society | p. 39 |
| The StB in November 1989 | p. 45 |
| Czechoslovakia, 1990-2 | p. 55 |
| The imperfect purge | p. 57 |
| New institutions | p. 62 |
| Legislating for FBIS | p. 66 |
| The brief life of FBIS | p. 69 |
| Lustration | p. 73 |
| Conclusion | p. 76 |
| The Czech Republic since 1993 | p. 83 |
| The security and institutional contexts | p. 83 |
| BIS Mk I | p. 87 |
| BIS Mk II | p. 92 |
| The man from Mars | p. 102 |
| Foreign relations | p. 111 |
| The StB legacy | p. 113 |
| Conclusion | p. 114 |
| Slovakia since 1993 | p. 123 |
| The Meciar factor | p. 124 |
| The legislative framework | p. 126 |
| SIS's false start | p. 127 |
| Lexa's unsecret service | p. 130 |
| Parliament's unseeing 'eye of the cyclops' | p. 140 |
| Foreign relations | p. 145 |
| SIS and organized crime | p. 146 |
| Demeciarizing SIS | p. 149 |
| The Securitate Legacy in Romania | p. 159 |
| The origins, structure and size of Ceusescu's Securitate | p. 159 |
| The internal and external activity of the Securitate, including the role of military intelligence | p. 178 |
| The Securitate and the Romanian revolution | p. 194 |
| Annex The informer network | p. 198 |
| The Successors to the Securitate: Old Habits Die Hard | p. 211 |
| Dismantling the Securitate | p. 212 |
| The creation of the new security services: SRI, UM 0215 and SPP | p. 218 |
| The Romanian intelligence service post-1990: The SIE | p. 228 |
| Files and scandals | p. 231 |
| Political accountability and its effectiveness | p. 243 |
| Annex | p. 251 |
| Conclusion | p. 263 |
| Bibliography | p. 265 |
| Index | p. 271 |
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ISBN: 9780333713723
ISBN-10: 0333713729
Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe
Audience:
General
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 291
Published: 18th December 2000
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.4 x 14.88
x 2.34
Weight (kg): 0.57
Edition Number: 1
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