January 16, 1909 - Mișu Dulgheru
His career traced the arc of postwar Stalinization in Romania — a low-level clerk who found his footing as the Communist Party dismantled the old order and required men willing to staff the machinery of political repression. Within the Securitate, the secret police apparatus established in 1948 on Soviet models, he held a significant operational role during the years when the institution was at its most brutal, targeting perceived class enemies, dissidents, and former political figures.
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Mișu Dulgheru (born Mihai Dulberger; January 16, 1909 – April 11, 2002) was a Romanian communist activist and spy. A clerk by trade, he rose through the secret police as the Romanian Communist Party consolidated its hold on power between 1944 and 1947, while from 1948 through 1952, he played an important role as an officer in the new Securitate. Subsequently, arrested as part of a wider purge, he was released after an investigation lasting over two years, but never regained his earlier prestige. Late in life, he left his native country for Israel and, later, Canada.
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