140:, he was appointed Director General of the Romanian Secret Intelligence Service (SSI), which he headed from 9 January 1947 to 6 January 1953. Guided by Bodnăraș, he worked to recruit loyal agents, both within the agency and in the Romanian Army. In consultation with the local Soviet espionage bureau, the pair reorganized the SSI into four bureaus: foreign information, supervision of diplomatic missions in
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officers, but they actively started recruiting some of them. Nicolau protested this practice to
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