![]() ![]() ![]() The CIA described his cooperation as "an important and unique contribution to the United States". Subsequently, he worked with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in operations against the former Eastern Bloc. His best known works are the books Disinformation and Red Horizons.Īt the time of his defection, Pacepa simultaneously had the rank of advisor to President Nicolae Ceaușescu, acting chief of his foreign intelligence service, and a parliamentary undersecretary at Romania's Ministry of Interior. ![]() He was the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc, and wrote books and articles on the inner workings of communist intelligence services. Ion Mihai Pacepa ( Romanian pronunciation: 28 October 1928 – 14 February 2021) was a Romanian two-star 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. ![]()
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