Curtis Kamman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (ABC News Nightline, 26 December 1989): “pockets of resistance from the security police”

see also a previous post on this video:

https://rolandothomassonphd.home.blog/2021/02/25/video-securitate-underground-operations-center-thousands-of-american-made-bullets-poison-gas-nicolae-ceausescu-business-cards-mike-lee-abc-news-december-1989/

Romanian Revolution on american TV

181 views•Nov 28, 2020

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxPm6m_dWZg&list=PLLoPVu0YgDTzN1gpqTGaWYG7r7M_ybTir&index=2

Today, I will address the follow clip:

from approximately …

min 40:00 A young Chris Wallace (sitting in for Ted Koppel) from what appears to be the 26 December 1989 edition of the ABC News Nightline program.

min. 45:50 “Anton Unku, Romanian Journalist” (aka Anton Uncu, Romania Libera)

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min. 49:05 Curtis Kamman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Chief Task Force monitoring Romanian Situation since 21 December 1989

min 49:38 Kamman refers clearly to “pockets of resistance from the security police here and there”

min 49:56 Kamman states when asked that these Securitate remnants pose “no threat to the control” of the new government, but they can cause bloodshed

Was Kamman just talking off the top of his head, repeating things from Romanian Television or the leaders of the Front, as some people would today have us believe. Of course not:

ROMANIA:  CIA National Intelligence Daily 28 December 1989 (declassified from Top Secret and Released to the public on 10 December 2019, https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/633/cia-reports-on-the-collapse-of-communism-in-europe/5)

Romania:  New Regime Consolidating Security

The government continues to make limited progress in eliminating the threat from Securitate diehards, but Romanians are increasingly skeptical of Communist dominance of the new government.

On Tuesday [26 December 1989], the new government put internal security forces and border guards under the Defense Ministry and set a new deadline for the Securitate troops to surrender.  The government is also calling on civilians to turn in all arms issued to defeat Nicolae Ceausescu.  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information not declassified for protection of sources and methods xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx nearly half of an estimated 200 Securitate members in Timisoara were dead, captured, or had escaped.  xxxx Classification not declassified xxxx

Significantly, the CIA NID from 28 December 1989 is consistent with what National Security Council (NSC) Director for European Affairs Robert Hutchings maintained in 1997: “It was an argument that had a few adherents at staff level during those chaotic days, during which a successful counterrevolution by Ceausescu loyalists seemed a real danger…110. …With Moscow as with others [“Bonn, London, Paris, and other capitals”], there was a broadly shared desire to see Ceausescu loyalists defeated, the bloodshed ended, and the democratic ‘spirit of Timisoara’ vindicated.” https://romanianrevolutionofdecember1989.com/robert-hutchings-nsc-director-for-europe-89-92-on-romania-december-1989/

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min. 53:30 “A Romanian political analyst now teaching Political Science in this country” Vladimir Tismaneanu, Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute…and lectures in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania…