The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI)’s Director George Maior on Tuesday told the plenum of the joint chambers of Parliament, that the SRI has, according to specialists, a professional credibility that places it among the top four-five places in the world.
“We are maintaining a strategic direction based on cooperation with important services, such as those in the UK, the U.S., Germany or France, but I say again, the geographical area or the affiliation of a state does not matter if that piece of information can give us something important for Romania’s national security. That is why we have opened such cooperation partnerships and, from an international standpoint, I think that the Service has a professional credibility placing it at least — as very many specialists from other services say — among the top four or five in the world,” Maior told the debate in Parliament over the SRI’s activity reports.
On the other hand, Maior spoke also about the SRI’s reform, which, in his opinion, beyond the structural dimension, had a ‘moral’ dimension, too.
‘The moral dimension is associated with the brave enough gesture to turn over the Service’s entire archive to the relevant bodies, namely the National Council for Studying State’s Securitate Archives (CNSAS). Basically, 99.99% of the archive has been handed over to that body, and thus the Service can consider itself completely detached from certain burdens of the past, from a particular connection made, at least at the level of perception at a given time, with the former Securitate,” said the SRI’s head.
George Maior added that the remaining 0.1% of the archive is studied and, “depending on its relevance in terms of Romania’s strategic external relations,” a decision will be taken whether or not to hand it over to the CNSAS. AGERPRES
