Dosarul Revolutiei: The Past is Coming (1). Proces Verbal 30 ianuarie 1990 (Constantin Oancea, adjunct M.A.E.)

My colleague and co-author Andrei Ursu has posted the following Appeal and Communique with links and pdfs: Please read! My thanks to Andrei for his amazing commitment to and work for this cause!
http://gh-ursu.ong.ro/ApelCreareServiciuParchet.pdf

http://gh-ursu.ong.ro/ComunicatDePresaCercetareaRevolutiei.pdf

This post will hopefully begin a series of posts over the next month, marking the 32nd anniversary of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, that will publish original documents from the so-called Revolution File. These are documents which the military prosecutors of the SPM, past and present, have clearly either overlooked, forgotten, avoided, or studiously ignored. They tell a very different, in fact a completely different story, than the one the military prosecutors have claimed publicly. I plan to synthesize and analyze these documents, time permitting (I may return to update/clarify insights on certain documents).

Today, the Proces Verbal of Constantin Oancea from the Foreign Affairs Ministry recorded in typed format on 30 January 1990.

CC vol. 70 pp. 260-262

Why is it important? What do we learn?

1) Oancea notes that from the 22 December, on the roof of the Foreign Ministry building, Securitate officers were stationed.

2) At a certain point, there was gunfire against Army soldiers stationed outside in front of the building. The Army wanted to respond, but Oancea, instead said he would go make contact with those who were shooting.

3) He found two people in the center of the building who presented themselves as Majors Ivan and Oprita, from the Interior Ministry (M.I.)

4) Here is what Oancea recounts they told him: Majors Ivan and Oprita…”said they would not put down their arms until they were convinced that Nicolae Ceausescu had abdicated, defending their position by saying they were well-compensated and that, besides, they had sworn an oath of loyalty to Nicolae Ceausescu.”

5) “Moreover, the two [Ivan and Oprita, M.I.] specified that they could continue fighting, under these conditions, because both under the building of the Foreign Affairs Ministry and in the area of Victory Square there existed a network of underground tunnels through which they could gain access from different directions. In addition, in these bunkers there were deposits of food and ammunition.”

6) Oancea said that he believed what they told him was true because he saw how when soldiers attempted to approach an air vent on the lawn in front of the Foreign Affairs Ministry building, both from a nearby garage and building, gunfire was opened on them.

7) Then critically, Oancea recounts that he got in contact with the head of D.S.S., the Securitate, General Iulian Vlad, and upon telling him what was going on, Vlad replied “see here, these guys will slaughter you,” in a rather clear reference to the MI people (i.e. Securitate) who were resisting the Revolution. Oancea then gets in touch with the head of Foreign Intelligence, Stamatoiu, who by contrast it appears, tells him to disarm those who have not surrendered yet.

8) “Later, on the morning of 25 December 1989 [i.e. the day Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were summarily tried and executed], after being reinforced by Army forces, Pavelescu [presumably Dumitru Pavelescu, head of the Securitate’s uniformed troops] arrived and although Major Ivan had said that he had only 11 people under his command, after they surrendered, it was discovered that in the building there were in fact 25, who were then disarmed and detained.”

9) Oancea then says he ordered an official to move marble blocks to block any further access from the underground tunnels.

10) Oancea says he then found out from soliders defending the Foreign Ministry building (and who as of the date of this declaration were still there) that those from the left side of building who opened fire on the nights of 23 and 24 December 1989 were commanded by a certain “Negoita.” The circumstances of the gunfire from the rooftop of the building as well as from the second floor (European) were transmitted to Gen. Col. Victor Stanculescu who at that time was Deputy Defense Minister and who as a result sent an additional two tanks and a team of riflemen to the Foreign Ministry.