Denomination
Orthodox
2 documented episodes on file.
Filed
2 entries
FILED · 1948–1989 · ORTHODOX · INFILTRATION
Securitate Operations Against the Romanian Churches
The Romanian Communist secret police (Securitate) operated agent networks within both the Romanian Orthodox Church and the suppressed Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church from 1948 to 1989; CNSAS file openings after 1999 documented both extensive clergy collaboration and the imprisonment-deaths of resisting bishops.
FILED · 1943–1991 · ORTHODOX · INFILTRATIONKGB Co-option of the Moscow Patriarchate
After Stalin's 1943 rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox Church, the Soviet state operated the reconstituted Moscow Patriarchate as a controlled institution; KGB infiltration was documented in detail by the post-Soviet Russian Supreme Soviet inquiry and by the Mitrokhin Archive published in 1999.
