Ion Mihai Pacepa

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Ion Mihai Pacepa

Ion Mihai Pacepa (born October 28, 1928 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian secret service employee . Until July 1978 he was lieutenant general of the Romanian secret service Securitate and advisor to President Nicolae Ceaușescu , deputy head of the foreign intelligence service and state secretary of the Romanian interior ministry. He asked for asylum on a business trip at the American embassy in Bonn . US President Jimmy Carter accepted his asylum application. As a result, he worked with the US foreign intelligence service CIA in several operations against the Eastern Bloc. She described this collaboration as "an important and unique contribution to the United States".

biography

Pacepa studied chemistry but was drafted by the Securitate a few months before graduation and only received his engineering degree four years later. Between 1957 and 1960 he served as head of the Romanian residency in the Federal Republic of Germany , between 1972 and 1978 he was deputy head of the foreign secret service.

Pacepa resigned in July 1978 during a stay at the US embassy in Bonn . He had been sent there by Ceaușescu with a message for Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . He was secretly flown in a US military plane to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, DC . In the United States he was given a new identity.

In September 1978, Pacepa was sentenced to death twice in Romania . Ceaușescu put a $ 2 million reward on his head. Yasser Arafat , who Pacepa reported was homosexual, and Muammar al-Gaddafi each offered an additional $ 1 million for his capture.

In the 1980s the Romanian state police commissioned the terrorist " Carlos the Jackal " to murder Pacepa for a fee of one million dollars in the USA. Carlos couldn't find Pacepa, but on February 21, 1980, he bombed part of Radio Free Europe's headquarters in Munich. The station had sent news of Pacepa's defection to the United States.

On July 7, 1999, the Supreme Court of Romania, in its decision No. 41/1999 the death sentences against Pacepa. His rank was returned to him and his property, which had been confiscated on Ceaușescu's orders, was returned. The Romanian government, which was still under the influence of Pacepa's former subordinates, did not consent to this decision. The result was a series of reactions in the West that questioned the rule of law in Romania. In December 2004, the Romanian government returned the rank of general to Pacepa.

Controversial theses

Pacepa became best known with the theses that the KGB had President Kennedy murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas and that the KGB through targeted disinformation for the work " Der Stellvertreter " (1963) by Rolf Hochhuth Pope Pius XII. as a conformist against the National Socialist regime . In the National Review, Pacepa claimed that he himself was involved in this KGB operation around 1960. Hochhuth denied that he had been exposed to forged documents for the historical appendix to his book.

When Pacepa defected to the American secret service, he is said to have had papers - from Egon Bahr and others - with him that indicated that the Federal Republic of Germany would be politically neutral in the future.

Pacepa also claimed that the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat , was an agent of the KGB. He reported that he paid Arafat $ 200,000 every month. He also stated that the Soviet Union ran an anti-US and anti-Israel propaganda campaign in the Middle East in the 1970s.

He also stated that weapons inspectors could not find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after its invasion in 2003 because the Russian GRU extracted and destroyed the weapons. A detailed plan for such an approach had been worked out years earlier in order to support Libya . Both dictatorships were deliberately equipped with weapons of mass destruction by the USSR so that they could finance international terror without fear of retaliation from the USA.

Fonts

  • Red Horizons - Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief , Regnery Gateway, 1987
  • Cartea Neagra a Securitatii , Ziua 1999
  • Programmed To Kill , Ivan R. Dee Chicago, 2007
  • Disinformation. Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism. Wnd Books, June 2013, ISBN 978-1936488605 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ You are too big for such a small people . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1986 ( online - Dec. 1, 1986 ).
  2. ↑ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jan/13/20040113-085236-5919r/
  3. ↑ Land of the Living Dead . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1989 ( online - Nov. 20, 1989 ).
  4. ↑ A macho is male. Spiegel Online Kultur, February 24, 2007, accessed November 23, 2015 .
  5. ^ Matthias Matussek, Alexander Smoltczyk: A satanic coward . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2007 ( online - May 26, 2007 ).
  6. ↑ Carl-Christian Kaiser: The scene was desolate and empty. ZEITmagazin, September 8, 1978, accessed on November 23, 2015 .
  7. ↑ footnotes. Die Welt, September 24, 2003, accessed November 23, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Eugen Tomiuc: The Cold War Roots Of Islamist Terrorism. Radio Free Europe - Radio Free Liberty, July 2, 2013, accessed November 23, 2015 .
  9. ^ Ion Mihai Pacepa: Ex-spy fingers Russians on WMD. The Washington Times, August 20, 2003, accessed November 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Pacepa, Ion Mihai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian secret service worker
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest