Ion Ioniță was born on June 14, 1924, in Matăsaru commune in Dâmbovița County, in a family of poor peasants.

In September 1944 he received the authorization to contact the young workers from Grivița, from Transport-Călători and Tipografia Filaret, for the organization of the working youth and the creation of a UTC sector comprising the CFR units in Bucharest.

[citation needed] At the beginning of 1945, on the recommendation of Marta Cziko (the future wife of Alexandru Drăghici, Minister of the Interior), Ion Ioniță became a member of the Romanian Communist Party and on this occasion also a member of the Romanian Communist Party Sector Committee of the CFR and its Bureau, as responsible for the youth.

[2] Ioniță's name, who was considered close associate of Ceausescu[3] was circulated in 1984 on the occasion of a plot that tried to remove Nicolae Ceaușescu, when he was on a visit to West Germany.

[4] The conspirators hoped to benefit from the support of the Bucharest Military Garrison for the arrest of the closest collaborators of the president (Emil Bobu, Ion Dincă, Tudor Postelnicu, Ion Coman and Ilie Ceaușescu), then to take control of the radio and television stations to announce the change that had taken place.