The 1984 Bavarian Agency for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) contained the following information:
R O M A N I A
When an intelligence officer of the Romanian Embassy in Bonn defected to the West in 1984 important information was obtained on the activities of the Romanian Intelligence Service on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. The defector presented evidence of the preparation and the actual carrying out of criminal activities with a political background by the Intelligence Service, represented by officers of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service CIE who had diplomatic status with the Romanian Embassy in Bonn.
Case Number One
On 2, 1984 a tear gas assault was made on a Romanian born German citizen, residing in Cologne by two Romanian "tourists" who allegedly had traveled from Paris to Cologne. The unidentified culprits escaped from the house of the victim with money, papers and documents. The victim was known as a former communist, faithful to the regime and carrying out an official mission in the Federal Republic of Germany. After her return to Romania she lost her former position with the Romanian Party because of alleged anti-Romanian behavior in a foreign country; she took advantage of her stay in a Southern European country to remain in the West. Since that time she had been active within the Romanian emigre circles in the Federal Republic of Germany. The attack which had the case name of RITA - CORBU had been organized and directed by the Romanian Embassy in Cologne or Bonn respectively. Ion GRECU, Counter Intelligence Chief of the CIE, First Secretary and Press Attache of the Embassy was the one directing the case. Cultural Attache LUPU had been ordered to deceive the victim, spy on her following the attack and distract the suspicion from the Romanian Embassy.
Case Number Two
A Romanian physician, a close relative of a high ranking member of the Romanian Government traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany and applied for asylum. In June 1984 the counter-intelligence unit of the CIE headquarters received the order to find the refugee and forcibly take him back to Romania. The operation was supposed to be concluded by the time of the scheduled party meeting of the Romanian Communist Party in November 1984. In case the operation was unsuccessful and the refugee not returned to Romania, a specialist was supposed to come from Romania to assassinate the asylant. An operating group was formed at the Romanian Embassy, acting from the Embassy under the guidance of the deputy director of the CIE and the section chief for West Germany. As of June 1984 nine members of a search troup, disguised as tourists,were travelling within West Germany; this group consisted of physicians, representatives of companies and CIE officers. Numerous contact persons living in the Federal Republic of Germany were activated, federal agencies were - under pretence - officially included in the search action. Following are the names of the persons who were substantial in directing the case:
- Constantin CIOBANU.Councillor of the Embassy
- Ion GRECU,First Secretary
- Ioan LUPU,First Secretary
Case Number Three
At least since October 1983 preparations had been made by the CIE'for a bomb attack on Radio Free Europe (RFE) in Munich. The below-listed persons were responsible for the exploration of the object and its environment:
Constantin CIOBANU,Councillor of the Embassy
Dan MIHOC, Second Secretary. Chief, Technical Bureau
Ion CONSTANTIN, Third Secretary, Chief, Consular Section
In the summer of 1983 CONSTANTIN received the order in Bucharest to collect detailed information concerning a bomb attack on RFE. Following his stay in Munich on 11 and 12 October 1983 he wrote a 13-page exploratory report on the "target" RFE. CIOBANU, as a Resident, confirmed in a supplement the accuracy of CONSTANTIN's report which he (CIOBANU) had checked through a on-the-spot survey. In December 1983 CONSTANTIN attended a two-day orders conference in Bucharest. He was given surveillance reports of the objects by CIOBANU and MIHOC for comparison. Thereafter he received the order to obtain yet further information. In 1984 he made two more trips to Munich to gather missing details.
I had the chance to read a summary of the Constantin report, which described the
· traffic in the area,
· traffic signs and parking,
· the facility and wall surrounding it,
· the different entrances/gates,
· certain offices on the first floor,
· the presence of certain security personnel, and other installations in the immediate vicinity.
Constantin had received instructions to collect detailed information on the RFE/RL facility in Munich, referred to by the code name "Cobra." In December 1983, while in Bucarest, Constantin was given two days of briefing by and was shown the reports from Ciobanu and Mihoc. Even though his own report wad been evaluated at "good," Constantin was asked to obtain additional information of interest (Constantin did not elaborate to Source.) In 1984, Constantin made two more trips to Munich, where he asked one of his collaborators (No Further Information) to help him in this project. Of extreme interest was mention of the headquarters group in Bucharest responsible for organizing "physical attacks on anti-Romanian personnel abroad" and "usually hires foreigners to carry out the operations themselves."
