CNSAS, treated with refuse

-- High clergy accuse the College of interference
The CNSAS (National Council for Research on the Communist Secret Service Archive) College faced yesterday the refuse of the high clergy to come to hearing, the only one who answered the request of the institution being the Archbishop of Alba, Andrei Andreicut. On the other hand, Archbishop of Suceava and Radauti, Pimen Zainea, Bishop Arges, Calinic Argatu and Bishop Arad, Timotei Seviciu, didn't honour the CNSAS request. The Metropolitan Bishop of Cluj, Alba, Crisana and Maramures, Bartolomeu Anania, informed, by a press communiqué, that hew considered the approach of the College as an interference in the internal affairs of BOR (Romanian Orthodox Church), and Metropolitan Bishop Daniel denied any collaboration with the former communist secret police.
Andreicut: I have disburdened my soul
Archbishop of Alba Andrei Andreicut came to the seat of CNSAS tomake clarifications relating to his collaboration with the communist secret police (Securitatea). (...) After the hearing, Archbishop of Alba Andrei Andreicut said he didn't have a network file, but an informer file. Moreover, he said the Securitate harassed him during the communist regime and then he offered each journalist an issue of his book, written in 2001, "Fairy-tales makers are gone". The Archbishop of Alba said that the book contains many pages of his file and it shows he didn't do political police activities. Andrei Andreicut admitted he had collaborated with Securitatea out of constraint, but he claimed he didn't harm anyone.
Bartolomeu Anania: Interference in the BOR affairs

HH Bartolomeu, Metropolitan Bishop of Cluj, Alba, Crisana and Maramures, criticized in a press release the approach of CNSAS, which he considers as interference in the Church business. HH Bartolomeu Anania said he had been surprised to receive an invitation to be heard by CNSAS, and the invitation be made at the request of the Romanian Civic Forum. "Such an invitation was addressed to other colleagues from the Holy Synod as well and it was launched about the day the Romanian Orthodox Church is to elect a new Patriarch. It bears all the signs of an inconceivable interference in the internal affairs of an autonomous institution", explained Bartolomeu Anania, according to a NewsIn release. The Metropolitan Bishop of Cluj was also disturbed by the way in which he was called to hearing, at a fixed date and hour, and said this practice reminded him the "awful times when he could be taken out of his cell anytime, during the day or at nighttime, and brought through the darkness of the black-lens glasses to be interrogated by the investigators of the Securitate".
Metropolitan Bishop Daniel denies any collaboration
The Metropolitand Bishop of Moldova and Bucovina, HH Daniel, said yesterday he had no knowledge of a file on him that might attest his collaboration with the former communist secret police. Sources in the College stated last week that the name of the Metropolitan Bishop of Moldova appeared in a minute of SIE (Foreign Intelligence Service) dated 1990, which indicates the fact that he had collaborated with Securitatea, but his file had been burnt.
HH Daniel assures, for the time being, the patriarchal lieutenancy, after the death of Patriarch Teoctist.

Cristian Andrei
Ziua Marti 4 Septembrie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english