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Former RO intelligence chief who defected to the US in the 1970s passes away
Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former deputy head of the Romanian Intelligence Service under dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, passed away from Covid-19 on February 14. He was 92 years old.
Ronald J. Rychlak, who worked together with Pacepa on the book Disinformation, made the announcement, quoted by The Epoch Times.
General Pacepa defected to the US in 1978 after requesting asylum in the country while on a mission in Germany. At the time, he was the head of the Presidential House of Romania, according to his biography presented by Humanitas Publishing House. He was the highest-ranking official from the former Soviet Bloc to request asylum in a NATO country. After his defection, he collaborated with the US Government on various operations.
Born in Bucharest in 1928, he became a lieutenant in the secret police Securitate after graduating from the Industrial Chemistry Faculty. After four years, he became head of service in the fourth counter-intelligence department and, starting January 1956, head of the Romanian intelligence station in West Germany. He was first deputy of the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (DIE) between 1966 and 1972 and a security advisor of Ceauşescu between 1972 and 1978. He
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Pacepa, Ion Mihai 1928-
PERSONAL:
Born 1928; defected from Romania to the United States, 1978; married; children: Dana.
CAREER:
Politician and author. Director of Romania's foreign-intelligence service in the 1970s. Military service: Became lieutenant general in Romanian Army.
WRITINGS:
Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, Regnery Gateway (Washington, DC), 1987.
Cartea Neagrà a Securitàtii, Editura Omega SRL (Bucharest, Romania), 1999.
Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination, Ivan R. Dee (Chicago, IL), 2007.
SIDELIGHTS:
Ion Mihai Pacepa is a politician. Originally a lieutenant general in Romania's secret service agency, Pacepa defected to the United States in 1978; his was the highest-ranking defection of a Soviet agent to the United States. Since then, Pacepa has turned to writing novels and books highlighting his experience as a secret service agent.
Pacepa discusses the Soviet Union's involvement in Iraq, Palestine, and terrorism in the 1960s, as well as the present-day issues and concerns that remain, in an interview in Front Page with Jamie Glazov. In discussing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, Pacepa stated: "Contemporary political memory seems to be conveniently afflicted with som