Another delightful article on NRO today from Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime Communist thug in charge of Romania’s DIE, current neoconservative flak. The typical Pacepa essay, I’ve noticed, opens with a brief “trust me, I’ve hung with some bad mofos” hook to reel the Tom Clancy devotees in. It then proceeds to explain how Pacepa, under direct orders from Andropov/Ceaucescu/Stalin/Marx/Satan, created the antiwar movement/ACLU/PLO/ NAMBLA/childproof aspirin lids to destroy Western civilization. Not that Pacepa, who eventually jumped to the CIA, wanted to do any of these things, you understand. His thirty-year rise to Ceaucescu’s top cop was just a typical Commie administrative blunder. A foul-up in payroll, perhaps.
Yeah, I bet. My suspicion is that Mr. Pacepa simply changed his address, not his stripes. If you have any interesting info about Pacepa’s career in Romania or the United States, please send me links, print citations, etc., preferably in English (but Romanian is also OK).
