Cum s-a intamplat de atatea ori in ultimii 30 de ani cu toate chestiunile sensibile din societatea romaneasca , modul in care este reflectata imaginea celebrului defector in tara si in afara ei difera in mod substantial.
Ion Mihai Pacepa pentru care Ceausescu a creat o unitate speciala de Securitate a carei singura sarcina era asasinarea generalului si a pus doua recompense separate de cate 1 milion de dolari pe capul lui , este si acum minimalizat si prezentat in presa noastra de catre " mostenitorii fostei Securitati " *) ca tradator al Romaniei, desi Romania nu s-a identificat niciodata cu comunismul si cu atat mai mult cu Securitatea.
Ceea ce nu este inca recunoscut in tara, a fost validat de multa vreme in Occident, contributia lui Ion Mihai Pacepa la demantelarea comunismului si la prabusirea lui fiind recunoscuta la cele mai inalte niveluri.
Cele doua articole reproduse mai jos sunt o demonstratie elocventa a acestei contributii.
Ion Mihai Pacepa in 1975. (Anghel Pasat/ Arhiva Agerpres)
A Personal Perspective on Ion Mihai Pacepa
Wayne A Barnes
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. He walked outside and pondered his future. Finally, he went back in and told them he was Lieutenant General Ion Mihai Pacepa, Acting Director of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service, the DIE.
Few were familiar with his name, and no one knew what he looked like. It was a poser.
At the time, I was a Special Agent in the FBI in the Washington Field Office, having attended language school a few years before and was a fluent Romanian speaker. Fortunately, my partner, Warren Rowlands, and I had been on surveillance the previous April when the Romanian diplomatic corps in Washington held a picnic where the general was present. On a wooded pathway, I had seen him up close.
The CIA flew him around the world in a C-151, arriving at Andrews Air Force Base on a sunny day. Two-dozen dignitaries were there to meet the man with a red carpet laid out. The plane landed and a gangway was rolled over to the door. The general stood on the platform and breathed in his new country. The head of the CIA’s resettlement branch rushed back to Warren and me, stuttering, “Is it him?”
We could not help but toy with him. Warren said, “I don’t know, he is pretty far away, and we saw him so long ago.” This went on a moment longer, then I nodded, “He’s your man.”
The official was ecstatic, and so began Ion Mihai Pacepa’s life in America.
Debriefing began the next day. Defectors are asked their knowledgeability, what topics they know best. As the head of Romanian Foreign Intelligence, Pacepa said, “In five years I will begin to forget things you haven’t asked me.” He was right. It went on three days a week for months, writing our interviews on the off days. He personally knew every senior-ranking bad guy in the world, including Chairman Mao, North Korea’s Kim, Yasser Arafat, and a string of Soviet and KGB leaders. His knowledge was encyclopedic.
When he made the decision to defect, he visited the directors of the other Eastern European intelligence services so he would have more information on our Cold War enemies.
His opinion was so valued he became a tacit advisor to presidents of the United States, beginning with Jimmy Carter (s.n.).
There are two sounds in the English language that appear in no other. The “th” sound from “the,” and the “r,” as in “run.” One of the hardest words for any new English speaker is the number “three,” putting both sounds together.
Pacepa had a real problem with this, and his language instructor couldn’t get past it. During one session, I explained that the teeth are separated and the tongue is put out just past them, then quickly withdrawn, thus giving the “th” sound.
He practiced a couple of times, then we moved to a mirror. He pronounced it perfectly, but became upset, which I did not understand. He said, “I will not stick out my tongue at the President of the United States!” From then on, all his “threes” were “trees.”
When he left Romania, no one knew his plans. That didn’t stop a very paranoid President Nicolae Ceausescu from believing it had all been a grand conspiracy. Pacepa had been both his intelligence chief and closest advisor. Ceausescu even had a nervous breakdown.
People back then, and even internet trolls today, are quick to toss around terms like “plant,” and “double agent,” describing any defector, including General Pacepa. They have read too many Robert Ludlum novels and watched too many Tom Cruise “Mission Impossible” movies, with no understanding of the real world of counterintelligence. If you want to send a “plant,” try a Colonel, but not the man in charge.
A Man of Principle
Here is an example of Pacepa’s moral compass. I had recruited an intelligence officer in the embassy who told us of the DIE’s intelligence plan to destroy the reputation of the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America, Bishop Valerian (Trifa). Romanian Intelligence General Gheorghe Anghelescu provided the Department of Justice with information fabricated by DIE technicians.
The Office of Special Investigations (OSI), tasked with ferreting out former Nazis in the United States, had eaten it up, ignoring our sensitive source. But when Pacepa arrived, he added more details, including how they created documents and faked photos of Trifa wearing Nazi insignias. OSI did not want a record made of any of this.
However, with General Pacepa’s full cooperation, I wrote a nine-page letterhead memorandum because we both saw this as a travesty of justice. No matter, OSI pursued the case relentlessly, not disclosing the exculpatory information to Trifa’s attorneys and even convincing the judge not to review it. Eventually, they were successful in having the Bishop deported.
Writing the memorandum was akin to biting-the-hand-that-feeds-you, for both the general and me, but we agreed it was the right thing to do. (Trifa’s reputation was never properly rehabilitated, and current recorded history still bears the scars of this miscarriage of justice.)
The senior OSI attorney wanted to have me fired, which only further inspired the general. We discussed his writing a book when his language ability improved. It would tell the devastating truth about communism in his homeland. That eventually became “Red Horizons,” a worldwide bestseller that President Reagan said was his guide to dictators(s.n.). It was read, chapter-by-chapter, over Radio Free Europe. The evils of Ceausescu’s regime were revealed to his people.
More than Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II in Poland, Pacepa was the first to light the fuse in Romania, which finally exploded into their revolution, taking down their horrible leader. General Pacepa was a very significant piece of the puzzle that brought down the Berlin Wall and ended the Cold War. We should all be very grateful to him(s.n.).
Wayne A. Barnes was an FBI agent for 29 years working counterintelligence. He had many undercover assignments, including as a member of the Black Panthers. His first spy stories were from debriefing Soviet KGB defectors. He now investigates privately in South Florida.
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 (s.n.). Unfortunately, most people remained unfamiliar with Pacepa and his work.
In the early morning hours of Feb. 14, 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 Ceausescu.
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, Ceausescu. He met Western leaders, including President Jimmy Carter(s.n.).
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(s.n.).
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 Ceausescu 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(s.n.). 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, Ceausescu 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(s.n.). 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 Ceausescu 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. Ceausescu 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(s.n.). 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 had 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 (s.n.).
Pacepa leaves behind his wife of more than 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).
Sursa : https://www.theepochtimes.com/ion-mihai-pacepa-1928-2021_3696496.html
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