Danube–Black Sea Canal
At the founding of the Securitate on August 30, 1948, Gheorghe Pintilie became the first Director of this organization (his Deputy Directors were Alexandru Nicolschi and Vladimir Mazuru-Mazurov, both of them ex-Soviet agents). In this capacity, he was directly implicated in the Pitești Prison "experiment". The majority of deportations to the forced labor camps at the Danube–Black Sea Canal (referred to as the "graveyard of the Romanian bourgeoisie" by the Communist authorities) were approved by Pintilie and his deputies.