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Ion Mihai Pacepa
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1928 - 2021
Ion Mihai Pacepa
Ion Mihai Pacepa (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon miˈhaj paˈt͡ʃepa]; 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 President Jimmy 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ion Mihai Pacepa has received more than 563,304 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ion Mihai Pacepa is the 487th most popular military personnel (up from 509th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Romania (up from 81st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Military Personnel.
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The Romanian Ion Pacepa, the highest-ranking spy chief ever to defect from a Warsaw Pact country to the United States, died on February 14 at the age of 92.
Credited by the CIA as the only person in the Western world who single-handedly demolished an entire enemy espionage service, Ion Pacepa was highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to defect from the Eastern Bloc. He died on February 14, at the age of 92: a victim of Covid-19.
In July 1978, Pacepa – at the time the head of Romania’s external spy network – walked into the United States embassy in Bonn, West Germany, and asked for political asylum. The authorities in Bucharest were stunned, dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu enraged. They recovered quickly enough to condemn Pacepa to death in absentia for treason later in 1978: he was not rehabilitated (with full honours restored) until 1999.
In a letter to his daughter, Dana, published in the French newspaper Le Monde in 1980 and broadcast by Radio Free Europe (whose Munich offices were in 1981 attacked with explosives by a group led by the terrorist Carlos the Jackal,
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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 remai
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