The Securitate Archive board also checks priests

The Romanian Patriarchy sent to the National Board for Securitate Archives Research (CNSAS) a letter requesting that results obtained after checking the files of religious cults’ representatives, revealing their possible collaboration with the former secret services, should not be made public.

“When the issue of amending the files Law came up, we received a request that the article regarding the clerics files research should be withdrawn,” CNSAS president Gheorghe Onisoru told Ziarul Financiar yesterday.

This request was sent to the Parliamentary Commission for Overseeing SRI (Secret Services) activity, which advanced its own suggestions for changing Ticu Law.

CNSAS seems to disagree with the bishops’ request. CNSAS president said that research of the clerics’ files, which is currently developing, will continue, but did not care to mention when it is scheduled to end.