Ion Șerb

Ion Șerb, also Ioan Șerb (January 11, 1926 — January 5, 2004) was a general of the Socialist Republic of Romania accused of the espionage for the Soviet Union.[1][2]

A declassified CIA document states the following. Romanian counter-intelligence monitored several high-rank officers suspecting them in sympathies for the Soviet Union. In 1971 unauthorized documents were found during the search of the house of Ion Șerb, and in subsequent interrogations he confessed he was recruited by the Soviet military attache to Romania, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Musatov. In order to avoid confrontation with the Soviet Union, Șerb was not prosecuted, but demoted to the rank of private. [3][2]

References
  1. "Scurta biografie a unui spion sovietic: generalul român Ion Serb" (retrieved April 28, 2019). Full version was published in: Armata României și politica națională. Studii și comunicări prezentate la Sesiunea națională de comunicări științifice Pitești-Mioveni, 24 July, 2015, Editura Istros, Brăila, 2015, pp. 213-218.
  2. "CIA a declasificat recent o notă privind agenții SOVIETICI din România"
  3. A CIA document dated 5 November 1971, declassified in 2006

Further reading
  • "Biografia unui spion sovietic: generalul Ion Şerb", in: Caietele CNSAS, anul IV, nr. 1-2 (7-8)/2011, Editura CNSAS, Bucureşti, 2013
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