Romanian Army Reveals Mass Bugging by Ceausescu Regime
The army lifted the lid on the mass bugging of Romanians today, unsealing the doors of secret phone-tapping centers operated before a popular revolution last December.
The monitoring centers, sealed since dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown Dec. 22, revealed banks of cassette recorders and control desks that taped conversations all over Bucharest.
“Please assure the whole world that the monitoring devices in Romania have been dismantled,” said Maj. Gen. Nicolae Cerbu, of the army’s Signal Corps.
The army today showed journalists a tiny room in a suburban post office where calls bugged by devices planted in telephones were received, amplified and directed to monitoring centers in central Bucharest. Cerbu said there are similar rooms in all 30 Bucharest post offices.
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