Talk:Ion Mihai Pacepa

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The official U.S. Government assessment of General Pacepa was expressed in the following letter:

Dear Lt. Gen. Ion Pacepa,Italic text

You have made an important and unique contribution to the United States of which you can be justly proud. Therefore, it gives me great pleasure, on this momentous and solemn occassion, to wish you happiness and fulfilment in this country as a U.S. citizen.

Best regards,

Richard F. Stolz

Deputy Director for Operations

Major American newspapers and magazines fully share the U.S. Government's view of General Pacepa. Here are a few examples:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110010438

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDlhZjRkMTMzNWM2ZGMxNDk5Mjc3Y2ZkYmZiNmZiZTM=

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=69fe5954-49c7-4e60-b8a9-df2fd143c6b1

Wikipedia should not consider derogatory allegations from former officers of Romania's communist political police, who, of course, regard the general as "traitor". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.62.12.31 (talk) 12:14, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pacepa traitor

He is still considered as the most wanted traitor by SRI. --213.254.183.228 20:18, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] So?

So?

[edit] Controversies

There is a certain belief in Romania that his "Red Horizons" are not entirely believable. This is complicated by the fact that he was a member of a secret agency and thus his reasons to write (or not) about certain events are hard to determine. My personal belief is that "Red Horizons" has a truthful general presentation of Ceausescu and the Securitate, but more specific details should be treated with a minimal skepticism. I would say that this article should include a part dedicated to controversies (not easy to write, though). Ferred 20:03, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

he was a traitor and did what traitors do Anonimu 20:12, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Ditto. I would also add that he was not even an "ideologic traitor", but a simple crook that escaped punishment by fleeing to the West. One good example of how the Communist recruiting mechanisms filled high positions in the state with low-level thugs. Dpotop 21:14, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

The article reads like puffery. I'm Romanian and I'd never heard that Pacepa's defection was single-handedly responsible for destroying the Romanian economy, isolating the country and bringing down Ceausescu. I've also heard that many of the claims in his book are dubious. This article needs some third party sources and some of the more ambitious claims need to be sourced. 64.231.240.200 05:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm Romanian and I can say that Pacepa could have stayed home occupying the same position he did before the Revolution (under a different label, of course) to this day unbothered and with his reputation untarnished. I believe he risked everthing through his defection and the flight to the USA. He took an unnecessary and huge risk without any obvious gain. It's rather unlikely he was a low-level thug.