What about the Dissidents’ Files?

Some time ago, during a late night show on Antena 3, "Sinteza Zilei", I said I didn’t think of a moment of the Security files’ disclosure to get more interesting than the Mona Musca moment.

I was wrong. There was to be another great moment. The direction is different from the one in the case of Mona Musca. I am talking about the disclosures regarding the file of C. V. Tudor, sent to CNSAS (the National Council for the Study of the State Archives) by SIE (the External Information Service). The file shows that the GRP (Great Romania Party) leader refused the offer of the Security to send him West.

Everyone hurried to contradict this by showing official documents according to which C.V. Tudor had been a collaborator of the Security as far as the literary life was concerned. Even if the proofs are not convincing, at least from the juridical point of view, the media noise put the sensational disclosures in the Vadim case in the background.

The data about the file show the fact that the Security could have "created" a dissident biography for him.

We, the people, who lived during the communist regime, know the Security used the dissidents’ creation in the cases of the people that were to get to "Europa Libera" ("Free Europe"), near Eugen Ionescu, in the group of friends of Monica Lovinescu.

This is why, even at that time, many of us were suspicious about certain important persons who, even if they were writing letters against Ceausescu, were speaking at "Europa Libera", were frequenting Occidental groups, were leaving West more times a year, were getting visas for the SE in the West that were valid for years.

Nowadays young generation is not aware of this. Especially when, every night, authentic or "created" dissidents appear on TV and complain about the ways the Security had made them suffer.

The wounds of some people are real. Some others talk about them just for the show.

This is why I think it is very important to disclose the files of the dissidents. Not just because the disclosures in the Vadim case show the Security had created dissidents’ files only to send them West as sources or as officers, but also because of the following reasons:

After the Revolution, important deportees in the West have expressed their suspicion of having "representatives" of the Security surrounding them.

Of course, there have been certain authentic dissidents as well. The latest disclosures could create suspicion towards all the ones that have made open anti-Ceausescu gestures. It would be wrong from us to suspect also the authentic dissidents by refusing to disclose the files to see who of the ones that are considered dissidents had been the actual "creation" of the Security.

After 1989, many important representatives of the previous culture became actual myths by telling us about their dissidence during the Ceausescu years. If some of them are the creation of the Security, their immorality is much greater than the one of Mona Musca. The NLP (The National Liberal Party) leader didn’t use her activity before 1989 to get success. From this point of view, Mona Musca cannot be accused of perjury. What about the heroes the Security created? They used their dissident glory to feed their moral authority. Due to their glorious past, some of the people that manifested their animosity against Ceausescu in the country or on air at the occidental radio stations they used to work for are today’s opinion leaders. How can we be sure that certain actions of them done in key-moments of the political battle haven’t been the result of blackmail?

Traian Basescu hurried to disclose the files of the high hierarchs and the ones of the religious cults’ leaders.

He doesn’t do anything to disclose the files of the opinion leaders.

Could he use their files to blackmail them?

Translated by Sorin Balan