MY LIFE AS A SPY
[Pages:47]MY LIFE AS A SPY
INVEST IGAT IONS IN A SECRET POL ICE FI LE
Katherine Verdery
MY LIFE AS A SPY
MY LIFE AS A SPY INVESTIGATIONS IN A SECRET POLICE FILE
Katherine Verdery
Duke University Press ? Durham and London ? 2018
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Verdery, Katherine, [date] author.
Title: My life as a spy : investigations in a secret police le /
Katherine Verdery.
Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identi ers:
2017047454 (print)
2017052453 (ebook)
9780822371908 (ebook)
9780822370666 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822370819 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: : Verdery, Katherine, [date] | Cold War--Personal
narratives. | Romania. Securitatea--History--Sources. | Secret
service--Romania--History--20th century--Sources. | Romania--
Politics and government--20th century--Sources.
Classi cation:
8241.8. 45 (ebook) |
8241.8. 45 47 2018 (print) |
949.803092 [ ]--dc23
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Frontispiece: The anthropologist in the eld, 1993. Author's photo. Cover art: Surveillance photo of " " in her hotel room, 1985. Courtesy of the Archive of the Consiliul Naional pentru Studierea Arhivelor Securitii, Fond Informativ.
In memory of four beloved friends and great anthropologists:
Gloria Jean Davis Ernestine Friedl Sidney W. Mintz G. William Skinner
In recent years, Iai has received ever more frequent visits by certain American grantees and doctoral students, for the purpose of specialization and documentation. Under this cover they had the goal of collecting information and data not intended for publicity, or of a secret character, from the socio-political domains of the Romanian S[ocialist] R[epublic]. In their activities they were supported directly by cadres and agents of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest who function in R.S. Romania under diplomatic cover.
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Unimaginable! I knew that I was followed on the street, that the telephone was bugged, correspondence opened, any word in public recorded by someone or other, but I did not realize the extent, diversity, complexity, the number of o cers, of informers, of technical means, and the gigantic amount of work performed by this unseen army that worked for 28 years in the underground of conspiracy. Only the hand of a Dostoevsky could describe these subterranean people...moles, hidden in our houses, whom we could hear gnawing on our tranquility but could not see.
CONTENTS
Preface xi A Note on Fonts, Pseudonyms, and Pronunciation xiii
Acknowledgments xv
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PART I Research under Surveillance
1 The 1970s: "The Folklorist" as Military Spy 33
2 The 1980s: The Enemy's Many Masks 111
Re ections on Reading One's File 181
PART II Inside the Mechanisms of Surveillance
3 Revelations 195
4 Ruminations 277
295
Notes 299 Bibliography 309 Index 315
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