In his new role, Pacepa lived at the top of the communist world order. 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. 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. Pacepa was named head of the Romanian intelligence station in Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1957. In 1955, he was transferred to Foreign Intelligence.
He was initially assigned to the Securitate’s counter-sabotage department. 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. Ion Mihai Pacepa, “Mike” to those who knew him, was called home to his eternal reward. 14, COVID-19 accomplished what a $2 million bounty and two separate teams of Romanian-sponsored assassins could not. Unfortunately, most people remained unfamiliar with Pacepa and his work. He was the man who pulled back the curtain to reveal the disinformation that was being churned out from the Soviet bloc. Ion Mihai Pacepa the “most influential man of the 20th century and, arguably, the beginning of the 21st.” In 2017, Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and a former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, called Lt.
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