Distracted MassesVol. 1 Issue #2 Oct. 2014 | Page 55

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