Hellvig: SRI to give CSNAS new documents about controversial cases during the communist regime

The director of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), Eduard Hellvig, has stated on Thursday that the SRI had ended any connection to the “evil past before 1989”, adding that the service would continue collaboration with the National Council for Studying the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) and would give it new documents in the upcoming period to clarify major aspects in old cases during the communist regime, such as the one of the dissident Gheorghe Ursu, killed by the former Securitate secret police or the file of the Brasov uprising in 1987.

“Despite numerous deliberate allegations, I can say with all responsibility that SRI has ended any connection with the evil past before 1989 and that its entire activity is ruled by principles and values that we respect in any circumstance, such as the law and the safety of the citizes,” said Hellvig at the opening ceremony of the master programme “Studies of global security” at the West University in Timisoara.

“32 have passed since then, 30 years have passed since the events in Brasov in 1987. And I agree that these cases must be puzzled out. I will do my best in this respect. I announce you as a first that we have concluded procedures to give CNSAS documents that could not have been given so far, according to the law, and which I hope will clarify important aspects related to the controversial past. Actually, according to the law, SRI has handed in CNSAS all files regarding the former officers that have been revealed as Securitate employees by court rulings,” Hellvig stated.

The SRI director also announced that a re-evaluation of all files currently in the Service’s archive would take place in the upcoming period to identify the documents that can be delivered.

“Your generation is entitled to know and understand the past in order to be able to build the future together,” Hellvig argued.