Виявлення та розробка радянськими репресивно-каральними органами працівників колишніх румунських розвідувальних і контррозвідувальних структур в Україні (1944–1951)

The article is devoted to the disclosure of an unknown aspect – the work of the Soviet special services in the Romanian direction (1944–1951). The work in this field was to organize the identification of former employees of the Romanian special organs, agents and assistants who, after the retreat of the German-Romanian troops, escaped to the territory of Romania, and agents of the intelligence agencies of that state, which were transferred to the territory of the USSR before the German-Soviet war, and also left in the rear for reconnaissance and sabotage activities at the time of departure of the German-Romanian troops from Ukraine. The main role in this process was given to agents who implemented the most complex operational combinations of Soviet security forces. It has been established that the potentially dangerous Soviet system considered even those employees of the former Romanian special services who emigrated abroad so their search continued. At the same time, searches were carried out not only in the territory of the USSR but also in all countries with pro-communist regimes. In the first place, the cooperation of the security forces of the USSR and the Romanian People's Republic has been well established since the second half of the 1940s, leading to the effective search, development and arrest of former employees, agents and supporters of the Romanian intelligence and counterintelligence agencies.

Of course, this direction of work succeeded to implement due to well-established cooperation between the security forces of the USSR and other countries, which was a success. The Soviet authorities were concerned not only with the cooperation of detected persons with the Romanian special authorities during the Second World War, but also the potential for their use by the intelligence agencies of England, France, and others. That is why the work of the MGB of the Ukrainian SSR was based on the need to clear from Romanian agents, first of all, the territory of the southern regions of Ukraine, who during the occupation were part of Transnistria (Odesa, Mykolaiv, Izmail, Vinnytsia and part of Kherson regions) and to identify all official employees of the Romanian security forces. However, an important element of the implementation of this work was the comprehensive use of agents. And even despite the significant operational successes of the workers of the regional departments of the MDB, the republican leadership constantly condemned the weakness of work in this direction. Practically this work was implemented according to the worked out schemes: recruiting agents, forming agents and investigating cases, making directories with biographical information of agents, searches, arrests and interrogations.