I inevitably await the SPM and the know it alls in the media and among Romania’s intellectuals to reaffirm the work of the SPM, to tell us we don’t understand their profession, that sure, sure they know all of these documents, but they concluded they have no relevance, etc. etc.
This is a good example, however, of what you see in the Files of the Revolution. Copies of the same declaration–damning declaration showing up multiple times in different volumes. Even better in this case is the consistency of Constantin Saileanu, he essentially says the same things in 2008 he said back in 1990. He hasn’t changed his story, even though the military prosecutors have. Below, Saileanu’s original handwritten declaration/witness statement from 17 January 1990. This appears in the following volumes: CC vol 24 Victime prin impuscare Sala Palatului, p. 71, CC Declaratii Militari UM 0160 Bucuresti p. 151, and CC vol 101 p. 589. Saileanu’s witness statement from 16 October 2008 appears in CC Declaratii Militari UM 0160 Bucuresti vol. 99 (starting p. 146) and CC vol 24 (starting p. 66). I will just pull a few excerpts for now from the 17 January 1990 statement and publish a few pages from the longer 2008 statement that show the consistency of Saileanu’s story.
Pe data de 23 decembrie 1989 in jurul orelor 1100 s-a deschis foc asupra tancului [sau] din cladirea Directiei 5, arhiva, cladirea de vizavi de biserica si din blocul turn din spatele bisericii.
Pe data de 24 decembrie 1989 orele 930 am intrat in subsolul cladirii directii 5 unde am gasit urmaoarele: o sala unde se aflau depozitate lazi cu munitie de 9 mm, 7,62 mm, pentru P.S.L. cu plumb in virg, 6,35 mm, 5,56 mm, cu munitie de vinatoare si alt tip de munitie pe care nu o cunosc, care nu se gaseste in dotarea armatei…Camerele de la demisol catre piata aveau podele pline cu tuburi de 9 mm care erau proaspate trase.
Roland O. Thomasson, PHD 