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The Securitate opens in 1958 an intelligence file called "Negoiu" or "Fagaras".
So he was followed by Securitate having two nick names.
This names were code names. Exactly as the informants had these "aka" names.
He was confined at the borders when he was member of the Anticommunist Resistances Carpathian Group.
Until 1976 his photo was on each desk of any Militia border staff.
He was confined to all borders and on regular basis a memo was sent saying
that Ion Gavrila with the following features is searched by Securitate, "he is a bandit, antisocial and he must be apprehended"
Not many people knew about him and this was due to his conspiracy self imposed, despite the fact that it was difficult to stay hidden so many years.
In order to find out where Ion Gavrila might be hidden and then to capture him, Securitate had deployed massive forces.
more than 1000 persons were watched, this number is revealed from the files.
At that time, a neighbour, called Dobrescu lived in the house behind me, in the yard with the walnut at the front.
who knew almost all the time that I was here.
He didn't know details, but he knew that someone is hidden.
Furthermore Securitate counted on him as being their agent.
This man defended me so well all these years
that when I arrived at Bucharest, all Securitate officers were swearing at him
saying : "How well he tricked us, that old villain".
Furthermore, this is the capstone:
his son-in-law was a Securitate officer.
Despite these circumstances he didn't tell anything at that time.
He told to my wife: "Madam, I have a soul and I don't sell it".
As far as I am concern, I can't see, I can't hear. Beside what I know that I must tell I won't speak about.
When I was writing the book, in 1990-1991 he died. The grave was still fresh when I had written the book.
So Traian Dobrescu must be mentioned as a man of humanity, a man with soul, because of his silence I am alive at this moment.
After some years a villager destroyed this human solidarity relationship. He wrote a denunciation addressed to Securitate.
It was 1979. Ion Gavrila was a free man at that time.
"We the inhabitants of Santimbru village we are asking you to relocate Ion Gavrila and Ana Gavrila from this location because they are very dangerous".
The "rat" is still living on the same street with Ion Gavrila.
- I knew that if they will find him we will all of us executed. - All? How come ?
My family, too. Because my family knew about him.