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Revision as of 07:20, 22 February 2007 by Turgidson (talk | contribs) (expand: Foriş)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Gheorghe Pintilie was born as Pintilie Bodnarenko in 1902 in Tiraspol, Russian Empire (now in Transnistria, Moldova). He died in Bucharest, Romania, in 1985. Nicknamed Pantiuşa, he was one of the first and main organizers of the repression in Communist Romania, and the founding Director of the Securitate.
As an adolescent, he fought with the Red Army in the Russian Civil War. Subsequently, he was recruited by Soviet intelligence to carry out espionage and sabotage actions against Romania. He was caught, and incarcerated at the Doftana and Caransebeş prisons, where he befriended Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who was to become the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) in 1945.
After the War, Pintilie married Ana Toma, a top aide to Ana Pauker. The couple adopted two children (Radu and Ioana). Between 1945 and 1948, he was the chief of Gospodăria de partid, in control of all property of the PCR.
In June, 1945, he led a squad that kindapped Ştefan Foriş, the previous General Secretary of the PCR. A year later, after a confidential vote at the top of the party, Pintilie beat Foriş to death with a crowbar.
At the founding of the Securitate on August 30, 1948, Gheorghe Pintilie became the first Director of this organization (the positions of Deputy Directors went to Alexandru Nicolschi and Vladimir Mazuru). He stayed as general director of the Securitate and as an adjunct minister in the Ministry of the Interior until his retirement in 1963. In 1968, after the rehabilitation of Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, he was excluded from the Communist Party.
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