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Dilema de Securitate A Romaniei in Timpul Razboiului Rece
Dilema de Securitate A Romaniei in Timpul Razboiului Rece
Internal & External Challenges Facing the Intelligence Cycle, Covert Actions and Active Measures
Dissemination
Collection
Processing
Interested Policy-makers quickly learn that intelligence can be used the way a drunk uses a lamp post for support rather than illumination
T. L. Hughes
Decision-Makers
Dissemination
Collection
Processing
(Operations Issues) HUMINT Reliability Linguistic Competence Recruitment Tours Boys vs. Toys
Cognitive Bias
Mirror-Imaging Fundamental Attribution
Organizational Pathologies
Turf wars, politicization, secrecy, etc.
Inadequate Product Manpower Issues Collection Linguistic Limitations Technology Issues Manpower Issues
Processing
Decision-Makers
Dissemination
Bureaucracy
Inadequate Product Manpower IssuesCollection Linguistic Limitations Technology Issues Manpower Issues
Processing
As long as the other side has a good intelligence service and is capable of reacting to what it sees, its possible to fool them again and again.
Barkis Contradiction
Deception, Penetration
Processing Penetration
Penetration
Deception, Penetration
Dissemination
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy
Penetration, Deception,
Coordinated Propaganda Penetration Analytical Impediments (Open Source Analyses, Media Reports, etc.) Inadequate Product Analysis & Manpower Issues Collection
Organizational Pathologies
Deception,
Production
Processing
Penetration
Non-Coercive Methods Rumors, Media Reports, Propaganda Academic Studies, Front Organizations, Agents of Influence, Disinformation
Penetration Agents, Forgeries
Coercive Methods
KGB DRGs, GRU Spetsnaz, Soviet Armed Forces Air Assault Units, Various Warsaw Pact Commando Forces (e.g. the Stasis AGM/5), Middle Eastern, European, Asian & Latin American Terrorist Groups
1919-1939:
Poland & Romania
The Border of Europe with the USSR
According to Soviet Archives, Romania (and Poland) became the principal target of Soviet Military Strategy & Intelligence Operations from 1919 until at least 1934 with all of the corresponding deployment, basing & military-paramilitaryintelligence operational preparations such a stance implies.
1906
[100,000 rubles bounty for every] kulak, priest and landowner who is hanged. We'll make the hangings look like the work of the [opposition] 'Greens' and then we'll put 1917 the blame on them. We must put down all resistance with such brutality that they will not forget it for several decades... The more reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed 1922 in executing, the better.
Common Hungarian & Soviet Strategies Towards Romania in the Interwar Period
Romania, against whom we have the greatest territorial pretensions, is our no. 1 enemy Until the time is ripe for an attack, pacific relations must be used to isolate it diplomatically and an active irredentist organization must continue to exist in Transylvania.
Admiral Horthy, October 1919
Conditions do not permit the immediate realization of Bessarabias liberation from under the foreign bourgeoislandowner yoke, while the struggle of the USSR for resolving the Bessarabian problem, as an element of Soviet peace policies, is transferred onto the field of diplomatic activity.
Soviet Authorities, April 1925
RUMCHEROD
1918
Bessarabian Societies
1925-1940 1944
1919
Litvinov Commission
War to the hilt between Communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist. Dimitri Manuilsky, Lenin School for Political Warfare 1930s
1920-1926
Elek Kbls
Boris Stefanov
Istvan Foris
Willi Munzenberg
Henri Barbusse
1924-1940
Gain recognition of Bessarabian populations right to detach itself from Romania because province was incorporated through force into the Romanian Kingdom;
Persuade American public opinion that any Soviet military intervention in Romania should be interpreted as a case of armed assistance accorded by the U.S.S.R. following the expressed request of the Bessarabian population;
Maintain a press campaign showing the unfortunate situation of the province, the starvation of the population and the necessity of an outside assistance in order to rid it of the yoke of Romanian repression; and Gather funds for liberation struggle.