Committee for State Security of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (
Russian
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*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: Комитет государственной безопасности Mолдавский ССР), also referred to as the KGB of the MSSR or the CSS of Moldavia, was the
security agency
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of the
Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
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, being the local branch of
Committee for State Security of the USSR. On 9 September 1991, the KGB of the MSSR was transformed into the Ministry of National Security (now the
Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova
The Security and Intelligence Service of the Republic of Moldova (''Serviciul de Informații și Securitate al Republicii Moldova''; SIS) is a state body specialized in ensuring national security by exercising all appropriate intelligence and coun ...
). Established in 1954, its rights were limited by the early 1960s, with the KGB border guard, once subordinated to the Moldavian KGB, reported directly to party leaders in Moscow. From July 1972 to its disbandment, the KGB was part of the Council of Ministers of the MSSR. From 1940 to 1991, all chairmen of the KGB were
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s. Today, modern Moldovan intelligence services are mostly based on the structure of the KGB, specifically its 5th Division.
Structure
Structure:
*Leadership (chairman, vice chairs, party committee)
*Secretariat
*1st Division (intelligence)
*2nd Division (counterintelligence)
*4th Division (secret-political)
*5th Division (economic)
*7th Division (surveillance)
*8th Division (encryption-decryption)
*9th Division (protection of party and government leaders)
*2nd Special Department
*3rd Special Department
*4th Special Department
*5th Special Department
*Manufacturing Department
*Communication Department
*Investigation Department
*Archive Department
*Prison Department
*Human Resources Department
*Mobilization Department
*Auxiliary units
Notable people investigated by the KGB
*
Alexandru Şoltoianu
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– Founder of the
National Patriotic Front
*
Gheorghe Ghimpu
Gheorghe Ghimpu (26 July 1937 – 13 November 2000) was a Moldovan politician and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union and then in Moldova.
Early life
Ghimpu was born on 26 July 1937 in Colonița, a village in Bessarabia duri ...
–
Romanian
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politician and political prisoner
*
Valeriu Graur
Valeriu Graur (23 December 1940, in Reni – 15 September 2012, in Bucharest, România) was a political dissident of Bessarabia, a member of the National Patriotic Front of Moldova.
He was the son of a Romanian officer deported to Siberia. He was ...
*
Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr
*
Sergiu Rădăuţan – Rector of the
Chişinău Polytechnical Institute
*
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* Nicolae (name), a Romanian name
* ''Nicolae'' (novel), a 1997 novel
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*Nicolai (disambiguation)
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*Nicolao Civitali ...
– Rector of the
Chişinău State Medical Institute
*
Boris Alexandru Găină
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– First Secretary of the
Teleneshty Regional Committee of the CPM
Chairmen
* Iosif Mordovets (May 6, 1954 – March 30, 1955)
* Andrei Prokopenko (March 30, 1955 – July 11, 1959)
*
Ivan Savchenko Ivan Tikhonovich Savchenko (1908-2000) was a Soviet Communist Party and KGB executive. Savchenko made a career as a political officer in the Red Army during World War II. A protégé of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, Savchenko transferred ...
(1959–1967)
*
Piotr Chvertko
Piotr Vladimirovich Chvertko (, born on 3 October 1915) was a Soviet politician who was the 4th Chairman of the Committee for State Security of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, Committee for State Security (KGB) of the Moldavian Soviet Soci ...
(1967–1975)
* Arkady Ragozin (December 17, 1975 – January 19, 1979)
* Gavriil Volkov (January 19, 1979 – January 23, 1989),
* Georgiy Lavranchuk (January 23, 1989 – June 23, 1990),
* Fyodor Botnar (June 23, 1990 – August 29, 1991)
* Anatoly Plagara (August 29, 1991)
References
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