Tag: Ion Mihai Pacepa

A Personal Perspective on Ion Mihai Pacepa

A man walked into the American Embassy in West Germany in late July, 1978. He said he was a senior officer in an Eastern European Intelligence Service and wanted to defect to the U.S. Would he be accepted? The CIA people needed his name. If he identified himself, he said he could never return home….


Ion Mihai Pacepa: 1928–2021

Commentary 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…