Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies : The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania

by Williams, Kieran

• ISBN13: 9780333713723
• ISBN10: 0333713729
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-03-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The first account of the secret police in Eastern Europe 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 detail the creation of new security intelligence institutions, the development of contacts with the West, and forms of democratic control.

Author Biography

Kieran Williams is Lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Dennis Deletant is Professor of Romanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	vii
Introduction	1	(23)
Kieran Williams
What is security intelligence?	1	(3)
Comparative framework for control and oversight	4	(12)
Complaints procedures	16	(1)
Post-communism's specificities	17	(7)
The StB in Czechoslovakia, 1945--89	24	(31)
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The origin of a political police	27	(3)
Deviations from the political-police identity	30	(2)
The informer legions	32	(5)
The extent of surveillance and persecution	37	(2)
Major operations against society	39	(6)
The StB in November 1989	45	(10)
Czechoslovakia, 1990--2	55	(28)
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The imperfect purge	57	(5)
New institutions	62	(4)
Legislating for FBIS	66	(3)
The brief life of FBIS	69	(4)
Lustration	73	(3)
Conclusion	76	(7)
The Czech Republic since 1993	83	(40)
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The security and institutional contexts	83	(4)
BIS Mk I	87	(5)
BIS Mk II	92	(10)
The man from Mars	102	(9)
Foreign relations	111	(2)
The StB legacy	113	(1)
Conclusion	114	(9)
Slovakia since 1993	123	(36)
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The Meciar factor	124	(2)
The legislative framework	126	(1)
SIS's False start	127	(3)
Lexa's unsecret service	130	(10)
Parliament's unseeing `eye of the cyclops'	140	(5)
Foreign relations	145	(1)
SIS and organized crime	146	(3)
Demeciarizing SIS	149	(10)
The Securitate Legacy in Romania	159	(52)
Dennis Deletant
The origins, structure and size of Ceausescu's Securitate	159	(19)
The internal and external activity of the Securitate, including the role of military intelligence	178	(16)
The Securitate and the Romanian revolution	194	(4)
Annex The informer network	198	(13)
The Successors to the Securitate: Old Habits Die Hard	211	(52)
Dennis Deletant
Dismantling the Securitate	212	(6)
The creation of the new security services: SRI, UM 0215 and SPP	218	(10)
The Romanian intelligence service post-1990: The SIE	228	(3)
Files and scandals	231	(12)
Political accountability and its effectiveness	243	(8)
Annex	251	(12)
Conclusion	263	(2)
Kieran Williams
Bibliography	265	(6)
Index	271