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In Romania, the state's security force, the secret police, whatever you want to call them, they were called the securitat. They were run by Jan Paseepa, who we talked about a little bit last episode. In 1989, it had 14,259 employees, of which 8,159 were officers. According to Passipa, each officer had to have 50 collaborators, members of the Romanian Communist Party and 50 informants outside of the party.