Generalul ion pace pa biography

PERSONAL:

Born 1928; defected from Roumania to picture United States, 1978; married; children: Dana.

CAREER:

Politician and framer. Director designate Romania's foreign-intelligence service reside in the Decade. Military service: Became deputy general choose by ballot Romanian Army.

WRITINGS:

Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Fifthcolumnist Chief, Regnery Gateway (Washington, DC), 1987.

Cartea Neagrà a Securitàtii, Editura Omega SRL (Bucharest, Romania), 1999.

Programmed hinder Kill: Thespian Harvey Assassinator, the Country KGB, good turn the Airdrome Assassination, Ivan R. Dee (Chicago, IL), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

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Ion Mihai Pacepa

Romanian general (1928–2021)

Ion Mihai Pacepa (Romanian pronunciation:[iˈonmiˈhajpaˈt͡ʃepa]; 28 October 1928 – 14 February 2021) was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following PresidentJimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum. He was the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc, and wrote books and articles on the inner workings of communist intelligence services. His best-known works are the books Disinformation and Red Horizons.

At the time of his defection, Pacepa simultaneously had the rank of advisor to PresidentNicolae Ceaușescu, acting chief of his foreign intelligence service, and a parliamentary undersecretary at Romania's Ministry of Interior.

Subsequently, he worked with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in operations against the former Eastern Bloc. The CIA described his cooperation as "an important and unique contribution to the United States".^[3]

Activity in Romanian intelligence

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Ion Mihai Pacepa's father (born in 1893) was raised in Alba Iulia, in the Transylvania region in the north west of Romania, where he worked in his father's small kitch

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The Death of Ion Pacepa

 

 

Ion Pacepa’s life was right out of a John le Carre spy novel.

 

I just learned about the death of Ion Mihai Pacepa.

He passed away quietly at an undisclosed location a few days ago from COVID. He was 92.

I feel obliged to share a few thoughts on Pacepa’s fascinating biography and his unique role in Eastern European history which hastened the end of the Cold War between the West and East.

Early in his military career, Pacepa was assigned to the Directorate of Counter-Sabotage of the dreaded Romanian secret police, otherwise known as Securitate.  He was later transferred to the Directorate of Foreign Intelligence and was gradually promoted to the rank of three-star general in the Romanian Army.  Pacepa became one of Nicolae Ceausescu’s closest advisors.  Then, in 1978, Pacepa stunned the world when he became the highest-ranking defector to the United States from an enemy intelligence agency.  He left Romania to seek asylum in West Germany and eventually settled down in America.  Someplace, we don’t know where.

At the time, Pacepa was such an abundant bounty of secret insider information on many of the East Bloc and Russian leaders and their internal apparatus that it took 18 months for American i