In 1987, he published Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, providing an insider's look into the Ceauşescu regime. He was also a state secretary with the Interior Affairs Department. He was first deputy of the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (DIE) between 19 and a security advisor of Ceauşescu between 19. After four years, he became head of service in the fourth counter-intelligence department and, starting January 1956, head of the Romanian intelligence station in West Germany.
After his defection, he collaborated with the US Government on various operations.īorn in Bucharest in 1928, he became a lieutenant in the secret police Securitate after graduating from the Industrial Chemistry Faculty. He was the highest-ranking official from the former Soviet Bloc to request asylum in a NATO country. At the time, he was the head of the Presidential House of Romania, according to his biography presented by Humanitas Publishing House. General Pacepa defected to the US in 1978 after requesting asylum in the country while on a mission in Germany. Rychlak, who worked together with Pacepa on the book Disinformation, made the announcement, quoted by The Epoch Times. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former deputy head of the Romanian Intelligence Service under dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, passed away from Covid-19 on February 14.
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