Podgorny “technically and you may categorically” declined the affirmations “the USSR conducts people cleverness activity within the Romania
…done guarantee for the categorically rejecting their affirmations with regard to the new intelligence passion contrary to the RPR and her citizens, no matter where they can be along with in whatever way anyway. … I affirm that the has never took place and this the cleverness organs have nothing to do with instance hobby after all.
Podgorny next dismissed this new objections of one’s best minister along with his deputy since “tendentious,” and advised one one another were only seeking “cover up brand new anti-Sovietism manifested about group meetings following April Plenum.” The guy as well as received awareness of this new flooding of “information and you may gossip regarding the shrinking interest of the Romanian comrades regarding the Warsaw Pact,” and you can affirming “one to Romania could to be certain its defense and this would be to not be a member of so it Pact.” He then ended because of the stating that “the problem of one’s thus-named Soviet agent companies when you look at the Romania” is actually now “sufficiently” and you can “fully made clear” for all parties – “you will find not today neither you are going to ever before become some of the agents of any sort.”