User talk:IMPacepa

Dear Sir:

I am Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, and I want to mention four inaccuracies recently introduced in your entry on Pacepa:

1. "Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official to have ever defected, beside Iacob Eremie, from the Eastern bloc." It seems someone made a joke. There is no Iacob Eremie on any list of defectors. Not even on Wikipedia's own entry on defectors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Eastern_Bloc_defectors).

2. "Romanian army colonel Titus Simon who directed the military intelligence bureau in West Germany during Pacepa's stint there alleged in his book 'Quo Vadis Pacepa' that during those years Pacepa had been recruited by American intelligence." This newly introduced statement is not only false but also anti-American, for it labels people recruited by the CIA during the Cold War years as "traitors". Wayne Barnes, Pacepa's main FBI debriefer, publicly confirmed that the whole US intelligence community was shocked in July 1978, when Pacepa stepped into the US Embasy in Bonn and asked for political asylum(http://www.jurnalul.ro/special/dezvaluirile-unui-superagent-fbi-30415.htm). Lucia Hossu-Longin, a Romanian TV producer/director, who studied all Securitate files on Pacepa (over 1,000 pages), confirmed Barnes's statement. (http://www.humanitas.ro/files/media/fata-in-fata-cu-generalul-Pacepa.pdf).

3. "During 2010, for an article entitled "The Truth About Illegals, published by Pacepa in the conservative U.S. monthly magazine The American Spectator, he also included a unique recent photograph of himself." This is also false. The photograph represents KGB illegal officer George Blake (http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/british-double-agent-honoured-in-russia/2007/11/13/1194766673679.html).

4. Wikipedia presents Pacepa as a three-star general. He is a retired two-star general.

I highly respect Wikipedia, and I hope you will correct these inaccuracies.

Sincerely yours,

Ion Mihai Pacepa.