CNSAS announces that it has exposed 17,104 informants of the Securitate from 2000 to the present, after reviewing thousands of files

CNSAS announced that 17,104 informers for the former Securitate have been exposed at the request of people who exercised their right to access their own files, from the institution’s inception in 2000 to the present. The data was published Wednesday in a Facebook post.

Identifying the informers involved analyzing tens of thousands of files, page by page. CNSAS notes that it does not have a record directly linking informers’ code names to their real identities. Establishing someone’s status as a collaborator requires both evidence that the person provided information about an eligible petitioner and certainty that the information and code name belong to that person.

The institution emphasizes that exposing informers does not mean simply publishing names, but rather involves a complex process of searching for, verifying and corroborating documents in the archive, repeated for each person identified.

CNSAS began taking over the Securitate archive in 2006, and the documents are gradually being entered into electronic records. On November 10, 2026, the institution’s website listed 4,920 names of Securitate officers and non-commissioned officers and 1,120 collaborators. The list of collaborators concerns people who held public positions or offices and for whom CNSAS asked the courts to establish that they had held this status.