Security intelligence services in new democracies
| Titel: | Security intelligence services in new democracies : the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania / Kieran Williams and Dennis Deletant |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York, N.Y. [u.a.] : Palgrave, 2000 |
| Umfang: | IX, 291 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Studies in Russia and East Europe |
| RVK-Notation: | |
| ISBN: | 0333713729 |
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- List of Abbreviations
- p. vii
- 1
- Introduction
- p. 1
- What is security intelligence?
- p. 1
- Comparative framework for control and oversight
- p. 4
- Complaints procedures
- p. 16
- Post-communism's specificities
- p. 17
- 2
- The StB in Czechoslovakia, 1945-89
- p. 24
- The origin of a political police
- p. 27
- Deviations from the political-police identity
- p. 30
- The informer legions
- p. 32
- The extent of surveillance and persecution
- p. 37
- Major operations against society
- p. 39
- The StB in November 1989
- p. 45
- 3
- Czechoslovakia, 1990-2
- p. 55
- The imperfect purge
- p. 57
- New institutions
- p. 62
- Legislating for FBIS
- p. 66
- The brief life of FBIS
- p. 69
- Lustration
- p. 73
- Conclusion
- p. 76
- 4
- The Czech Republic since 1993
- p. 83
- The security and institutional contexts
- p. 83
- BIS Mk I
- p. 87
- BIS Mk II
- p. 92
- The man from Mars
- p. 102
- Foreign relations
- p. 111
- The StB legacy
- p. 113
- Conclusion
- p. 114
- 5
- Slovakia since 1993
- p. 123
- The Meciar factor
- p. 124
- The legislative framework
- p. 126
- SIS's false start
- p. 127
- Lexa's unsecret service
- p. 130
- Parliament's unseeing 'eye of the cyclops'
- p. 140
- Foreign relations
- p. 145
- SIS and organized crime
- p. 146
- Demeciarizing SIS
- p. 149
- 6
- The Securitate Legacy in Romania
- p. 159
- The origins, structure and size of Ceusescu's Securitate
- p. 159
- The internal and external activity of the Securitate, including the role of military intelligence
- p. 178
- The Securitate and the Romanian revolution
- p. 194
- Annex The informer network
- p. 198
- 7
- The Successors to the Securitate: Old Habits Die Hard
- p. 211
- Dismantling the Securitate
- p. 212
- The creation of the new security services: SRI, UM 0215 and SPP
- p. 218
- The Romanian intelligence service post-1990: The SIE
- p. 228
- Files and scandals
- p. 231
- Political accountability and its effectiveness
- p. 243
- Annex
- p. 251
- Conclusion
- p. 263
- Bibliography
- p. 265
- Index
- p. 271
