Archive is safe, SIS

No file from the special store of the Security and Information Service (SIS) was destroyed by water, the Service said after historian Mihai Tasca informed the heavy rain that fell earlier this month damaged about 50 files of political detainees, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a communique, the SIS says the covers of the cardboard cases containing about 50 files have been slightly moistened by the rainwater that entered through the ventilation system, but the content of the cases was not affected. “The press and public relations service informs that no file containing documents about victims of political representation was destroyed,” it is said in the communique. Several days ago, historian Mihai Tasca told Info-Prim Neo that the special store of the Security and Information System was flooded on the weekend, but the employees found the wet files at the start of the week. “This case shows again that the special store of the SIS is not suitable for storing files and they should be immediately transferred to a specialized archive,” said Mihai Tasca, who is the secretary of the commission for studying the totalitarian Communist regime in Moldova. A month ago, the members of the given commission proposed moving the files from the stores of the law enforcement bodies to the National Archive.