Serviciul Român de Informaţii

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Romanian Intelligence Service
Serviciul Român de Informaţii
Romanian Intelligence Service
Agency overview
Formed March 26, 1990
Preceding Agency Securitate
Headquarters Bucharest
Employees Classified
Annual Budget Classified
Agency Executives George Cristian Maior, Director
 
Brig. Gen. Florian Coldea, First-Deputy Director
 
Lieutenant General Dumitru Ion Zamfir, Deputy Director
 
Colonel George-Viorel Voinescu, Deputy Director
Website
www.sri.ro

Serviciul Român de Informaţii (SRI) is the Romanian domestic intelligence service. It is considered the descendant of the former Departamentul Securităţii Statului (also called Securitate), of the Socialist Republic of Romania. The official decree (No. 181) that created the agency was released on March 26, 1990.

The service functions in collaboration with other branches of the country's security services, although their funds were scaled down and the secret service lost the position the Securitate had (presumably one of the world's top secret services prior to 1989).

Under the command of Director George Cristian Maior, a long term process of reform commenced implementation at the beginning of 2007. Reforms include structural changes and a redefinition of the service's role.

See also: Securitate

[edit] External links

  • (Romanian) Official site
  • (Romanian) Chronology
  • Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF; Working Paper No. 111; Larry L. Watts: Control and oversight of security Intelligence in Romania [1]
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