[Forbes] It took me seven years to track down General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former chief of Romanian Intelligence, after he defected to the United States in the late 1970s. He was the highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence officer to come to the West, and his defection produced the total dismantling of the Romanian service, as well as the identification of a considerable number of KGB "sleepers," intelligence agents operating without official cover or diplomatic immunity.
He has lived in secret ever since, as befits a man who is the object of two death sentences that remain in effect.
It’s safe to say, few living persons know as much about Communist methods as he. No one has taught me so much. Ergo, it behooves us to pay close attention to everything he says, beginning with his worldwide bestseller Red Horizons, the finest account of Communist rule I have ever read. He and Ronald Rychlak have just epublished a short booklet in which he explains why he is very frightened about our future:
It’s required reading, especially for those who have convinced themselves that the presidential campaign is nothing more than a contest to see who can sustain the rudest diatribe against Donald Trump. General Pacepa thinks it’s really about a mortal threat to America’s uniquely successful democratic capitalism, and he provides a detailed history of international Communism to prove his point. He’s all for Trump: