DISINFORMATION:
Pacepa and Ronald J. Rychlak
By Ion Mihai
Review by Scott Albright
Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest ranking Soviet
intelligence officer to ever defect to the United States of
America. He was a Lieutenant General in the Romanian
intelligence agency known as the DIE. He was in charge of
running disinformation operations for the KGB out of his
DIE office during the U.S.-Soviet Cold War. His revelations
about the KGB’s use of disinformation, propaganda, and
lies to discredit and attack their enemies is shocking, but
not all that surprising considering the literature available on
U.S. disinformation operations during the
same time period.
What’s so shocking about what Pacepa
writes is the incredible lengths to which the
Russians would go to cover up their own
operations and discredit their enemies in the
Vatican and in the U.S. government.
Pacepa reveals