Valentina Glajar and Corina L. Petrescu would like to thank CNSAS for its continued support of their research of Romanian secret police files. Special thanks go to Silviu Moldovan, who tirelessly deals with their requests and exceeds their expectations every time they visit the Securitate archives in Bucharest. Alison Lewis would also like to thank the BStU for allowing her access to the Stasi files.
Corina L. Petrescu is grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for its generous financial support that afforded her the means to conduct the research and the leisure to work on this project. Valentina Glajar would like to acknowledge funding from her institution that helped produce this volume. Alison Lewis would like to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Australian Research Council and its Discovery Project scheme, which funded the research.