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Ion Mihai Pacepa in 1975. (Anghel Pasat/Agerpres Arhiva)

Ion Mihai Pacepa: 1928–2021
Highest-ranking Soviet-bloc officer ever to defect to the West has died

Ronald J. Rychlak
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February 15, 2021 Updated: February 15, 2021

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In 2017, Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and a former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, called Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa the “most influential man of the 20th century and, arguably, the beginning of the 21st.”

He was the man who pulled back the curtain to reveal the disinformation that was being churned out from the Soviet bloc. Unfortunately, most people remained unfamiliar with Pacepa and his work.

In the early morning hours of Feb. 14, 2021, COVID-19 accomplished what a $2 million bounty and two separate teams of Romanian-sponsored assassins could not. Ion Mihai Pacepa, “Mike” to those who knew him, was called home to his eternal reward.

Pacepa was born in Bucharest in 1928. He studied industrial chemistry at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, but prior to graduation, he was recruited into the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania, the Securitate. He was initially assigned to the Securitate’s counter-sabotage department. In 1955, he was transferred to Foreign Intelligence.

Pacepa was named head of the Romanian intelligence station in Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1957. Two years later, he was made head of Romania’s new industrial espionage department, and he held that position until he defected to the West. Starting in 1972, he also served as deputy chief of Romanian foreign intelligence, adviser for industrial and technological development, and right-hand man to communist Romania’s leader Nicolae Ceaușescu.

In his new role, Pacepa lived at the top of the communist world order. He traveled the globe. He knew and socialized with Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and of course, Ceaușescu. He met Western leaders, including President Jimmy Carter.

Yet, in 1978, he risked his life to leave behind his position at the top of the Soviet/communist world and come to the United States. It became his mission to warn the West about the oppression that necessarily follows socialism and communism. He was and remains the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc officer ever to defect to the West.

President Carter didn’t believe Pacepa at first, and he wanted to return the defector to Romania—a certain death sentence. Pacepa’s own disinformation had tricked the U.S. president into believing that Ceaușescu was a trustworthy ally, and now Pacepa presented a very different picture.

Eventually the CIA convinced Carter of Pacepa’s bona fides, and Western intelligence agencies tapped the invaluable information he provided. Most important was his explanation of the way Soviet agents planted disinformation to deceive and undermine faith in Western governments, leaders, history, and institutions—especially the churches. When Pacepa later attained U.S. citizenship, the CIA gave him a letter thanking him for his “important and unique contribution to the United States.”

In Romania, Ceaușescu created a special Securitate unit charged with the sole task of assassinating Pacepa. The dictator also put two separate $1 million bounties on his head and dispatched the infamous assassin “Carlos the Jackal” to carry out the job, as well as a second team of assassins. They came close. Twice Pacepa’s secret identity was compromised and he had to undergo plastic surgery and rebuild his life with his American wife, a CIA agent whom he met while being debriefed.

Pacepa eventually published his information in the book “Red Horizons,” which exposed the corruption and brutality of the Ceaușescu government and the Soviet/communist world. (President Ronald Reagan called that book his “bible for dealing with dictators”). It was translated, condensed, and smuggled into Romania, where it became a catalyst motivating the people to overthrow their government. Nicolae and his wife, Elena, were arrested, given a hearing, sentenced, and executed on evidence, much of which came directly from that book.

After coming to the United States, Pacepa and his wife lived under assumed identities, but he continued to write books and articles under his real name, including the 2013 book, “Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism,” of which I was co-author. He wanted to correct false stories that he had helped create when he was influential in the Soviet-bloc intelligence world.

Among the most important pieces of disinformation that he wanted to correct were that the CIA was behind President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, that Pope Pius XII was pro-German in World War II, and that Middle Eastern terrorism was organic (rather than fomented from inside the Kremlin). The Soviet bloc intelligence machinery had cultivated all of these false narratives while Pacepa worked in that world. His final book, “Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin’s Secret War on America” (co-authored by R. James Woolsey) was just released by Encounter Books.

America’s recent flirtation with socialism concerned Pacepa greatly. As head of foreign intelligence in communist Romania, he worked with agents, assets, and dupes to plant seeds of distrust in the American mind regarding its government’s involvement in the Vietnam War. He noted that this type of disinformation was going on again today, with “fake news” and all kinds of stories (sometimes later retracted) that painted the United States in the worst possible light.

Pacepa spoke often of the media—more specifically, the money behind the news media, which drives the stories. Pacepa specialized in developing stories in this manner when he was at the top of the Soviet-bloc intelligence community. He helped turn American attitudes on issues in the 1960s and 1970s. He recognized the same techniques being used today so that many people now have a very negative view of their government but a positive view of socialism.

Pacepa leaves behind his wife of over 40 years and a grown daughter.

Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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Ion was an interesting guy. turned on his soviet masters with intel on what they were up to which was up to no good.

RIP.
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America First PAC (AFPAC) - Dr.Paul Gosar AZ 4th district speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFxhyqq2QeA
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Kristi Noem - CPAC Speech (2021)

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dilbert is channeling Redhott1960

Anybody know why Barelycorn got banned and Redhott?
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DPST marxists fixated on Trump hatred and their idiotology!
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dilbert is channeling Redhott1960

Anybody know why Barelycorn got banned and Redhott? Originally Posted by WTF

of course I was. I was channeling waco too for awhile.
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of course I was. I was channeling waco too for awhile. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
I think wd has dubs on waco!
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Disinformation the "game " dividing us just saying
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this former baizou changed sides and voted for trump in 2020



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py7ew8zeIVE
this former baizou changed sides and voted for trump in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py7ew8zeIVE Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
Didn't watch the video, but assuming it's about a liberal guy who moves to China, and then comes back a staunch Trump-voting conservative, I can understand that.

I was a pretty liberal guy coming up in Chicago. Then I lived in San Francisco for a few years. First thing I did when I got back to IL was buy a gun.

The Bay Area is a Feudalist Dystopian Hellhole, and liberals want every population center to be like it.
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Didn't watch the video, but assuming it's about a liberal guy who moves to China, and then comes back a staunch Trump-voting conservative, I can understand that.

I was a pretty liberal guy coming up in Chicago. Then I lived in San Francisco for a few years. First thing I did when I got back to IL was buy a gun.

The Bay Area is a Feudalist Dystopian Hellhole, and liberals want every population center to be like it. Originally Posted by GastonGlock

yes that it was about that. quite an eyeopener for him.
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America First PAC (AFPAC) - Dr.Paul Gosar AZ 4th district speech... Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

The below is the entirety of the proposal. No need to pass it to see what's in it.



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Isn’t this the congressman whose entire family endorsed his opponent ?
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paul gosar's 6 siblings is baizou!.

guess which side his mother is on???

answer in the article! lol!

https://people.com/politics/paul-gos...isinformation/


Ariz. Lawmaker's Estranged Siblings Denounce Him (Again) — This Time for Spreading Misinformation

"Paul's one of the first people to tell the 'big lie' about Dominion voting machines," his brother says in a new attack ad

By Virginia Chamlee April 02, 2021 03:42 PM

The siblings of a Republican lawmaker are again coming out against him — this time in a blistering new attack ad airing on Fox News claiming that Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar helped instigate the deadly Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol.

"There is no one member of Congress more responsible for the attack on the Capitol than Congressman Paul Gosar," Jennifer Gosar says in the ad, which shows the lawmaker's siblings along with scenes from the pro-Donald Trump riot in Washington, D.C.

Jennifer is one of three of Paul's siblings who feature in the ad, which also includes his brothers David and Tim Gosar.

"Paul's one of the first people to tell the 'big lie' about Dominion voting machines," David says in reference to the election equipment provider that found itself at the center of baseless right-wing claims supporting Trump's repeated argument that he somehow won the 2020 election, which he — in fact — lost to President Joe Biden.

The siblings' attack ad also shows an earlier clip of the representative in which he falsely claims that "Dominion seems to be set to changing Republican votes to Democrat."

Dominion has sued several Trump allies — though not Paul — seeking billions in damages over similar false statements made about the company.

The siblings say in the ad that Paul "tried to sell that lie every chance he could" before helping to promote and organize so-called "Stop the Steal" rallies, including one in D.C. right before the riots.

"Everyone that was a part of that insurrection needs to be held accountable and absolutely the organizers even more so," Jennifer says in the ad.

David continues: "How would it be just if the rabble pays the consequence and the ringleaders pay no consequence?"

"He should have criminal consequences, and if he's found guilty he should go to jail," Tim adds.

Their ad — which was created by conservative group Republican Accountability Project — is set to air in districts including Paul's own next week in Arizona, according to HuffPost.

The anti-Trump group has released other spots that call out Republican lawmakers who have promoted the former president's conspiracy theories, including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.

It isn't the first time Paul's siblings have banded together against him. In a blistering 2018 campaign ad for his then-opponent, six of Paul's brothers and sisters lambasted him for his work as a politician, saying he was "absolutely not working for his district."

One of his sisters, Grace Gosar, said in another ad released around that time for his opponent that "it would be difficult to see my brother as anything but a racist." As recently as February, the Arizona lawmaker spoke at an event in which organizers espoused white supremacist views.

Paul has served as a member of the House of Representatives since 2011 and won re-election in November, with nearly 70 percent of the vote, according to The New York Times.

At the time of his six siblings' ad in 2018, he said in a statement: "Those of my siblings who chose to film ads against me are all liberal Democrats who hate President Trump. These disgruntled Hillary suppporters [sic] are related by blood to me but like leftists everywhere, they put political ideology before family."

"You can't pick your family. We all have crazy aunts and relatives etc and my family is no different. I hope they find peace in their hearts and let go all the hate," Paul said then, adding, "To the six angry Democrat Gosars – see you at Mom and Dad's house!"

The Gosars' mother, for her part, told The New York Times in 2018 that she and Paul shared similar politics and that the siblings' attacks "crushed" her, but that they were a "wonderful family."

Paul, who is the oldest of 10, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's requests for comment.