35 years later: Top Cold War defector feted in native land

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. 35 years later: Top Cold War defector feted in native land Still under CIA alias, nation will see interview after broadcast of his new film Thirty-five years after his defection to the U.S., Romania's former spy chief under notorious communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu still lives under the protection of a CIA-created identity, but he was recently honored in his native land with a major television event. In this Eastern European nation that endured four decades of harsh communist rule – including 25 years under the megalomaniacal Ceausescu – six hours of broadcast time will be dedicated to Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking defector from the former Soviet bloc. Romania's B1 TV channel featured an interview with Pacepa and former CIA director James Woolsey after showing the new two-hour WND Films documentary based on insider-information Pacepa has shared with Western intelligence, "Disinformation: The Secret Strategy to Destroy the West." Watch a preview here: Pacepa was interviewed on the Romanian political commentary program "Aktualitatea B1" by host Andrei Badin. Badin told WND his channel is "delighted to see our former citizen, General Pacepa, as the hero of an American movie," and "we want to let our whole country know about it." "In our view, he played a crucial role in freeing Romania from the clutches of the Romanian Dracula called Ceausescu," Badin said, "and our TV station decided to honor him in a way no other Cold War defector has ever been honored." Badin said Pacepa is highly regarded by many in Romania today. "General Pacepa may not be known by our new generation, which grew up in a Romania that had rid itself of tyranny with the general's help," Badin said. "But he is certainly seen as a hero by my own generation of Romanians, who had the misfortune of living under Ceausescu's boot." Badin said he and his colleagues want Romanians to learn of Pacepa's impact on U.S. policy during the Cold War. The film, he pointed out, recalls that President Reagan called Pacepa's first book, "Red Horizons," "my Bible for dealing with communist tyrants," after receiving a copy of the manuscript in 1985. The film is accompanied by the newly released book "Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism," co-authored by Pacepa and Ron Rychlak. Former CIA chief Woolsey said the "remarkable book" will "change the way you look at intelligence, foreign affairs, the press, and much else besides." 'You are a free man now, general' Pacepa described July 28, 1978 as "the day I broke with communism and made the American Flag my own." He noted that this was "the first time in post Cold War history a national TV station of a former Soviet bloc satellite has dedicated a day to a Cold War defector." When he left Romania, he was head of Romania's Presidential House, which he has described as the U.S. equivalent of being the White House chief of staff and director of the CIA, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Pacepa recalls landing at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C., in a U.S. military plane on a secret flight from West Germany, where he had secured asylum. He remembers sitting in the cockpit with the pilots. "It was a glorious, sunny day outside, which only magnified the fireworks popping off inside of me," he recalled in a PJMedia.com interview. "I was a free man! I was in America!" A ranking representative of the U.S. government greeted him. "You are a free man now, general," he said. "Welcome to the United States!" Pacepa said that to this day, his eyes mist up when he recalls the greeting. At 84, he lives in the U.S. under a CIA-protective identity due to ongoing assassination threats and multi-million-dollar bounties on his head. The release of his new book and film have prompted further threats from powerful people in Romania who regard him as a traitor. Nicolae Ceausescu After his defection, he exposed the massive crimes and corruption of Ceausescu, providing evidence to Western leaders such as Reagan that the Romanian dictator's image in the West as a "maverick" was a ruse, bolstered by a disinformation operation. Pacepa's defection gave Ceausescu a nervous breakdown and prompted him to send assassination squads to the U.S. In 1988 and 1989, while still under communism, Romanians heard Pacepa's "Red Horizons" read in broadcasts by Radio Free Europe. On Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was executed by his own people at the end of a trial based on accusations that came almost word-for-word from "Red Horizons." The next day, the new official Romanian newspaper, Adevárul (The Truth), began serializing "Red Horizons," declaring the book "played an incontestable role" in overthrowing Ceausescu. IMPORTANT NOTE: Order Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa's brand new book, "Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategy for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion and Promoting Terrorism" or the companion film, "Disinformation: The Secret Strategy To Destroy The West." Better yet, get both the book and DVD together – and save! Watch a preview here: The 900-year-old prophecy of St. Malachy that predicts Pope Francis, the 112th pontiff in a specific line, will be the last pope applies labels to each Catholic leader, many of which strikingly coordinate with each man's official coat of arms. In the WND Films documentary "The Last Pope?" – based on the book, "Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here" – experts on the ancient prophecy explain how many of these mottoes not only match up with the papal symbols but the men's origins and life experiences as well. Malachy was a Catholic saint who lived in Ireland in the 12th century. His "Prophecy of the Popes," as it has come to be known, forecast that there would be 112 popes from that time until Jesus made His triumphant return to the planet. The sudden and unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI was the spark igniting the new wildfire of speculation due to one simple reason: his successor, Pope Francis, is the end of the line. In "The Last Pope?" several papal coats of arms are displayed as Cris Putnam, co-author of "Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here," explains how Malachy's descriptions fit in with specific design features. Says Putnam of Pope Paul VI: "The prophecy for him is 'Flos Florum, Flower of Flowers.' Sounds pretty simple, kind of vague, right? When you look at his coat of arms, it has three fleurs-de-lis. This is a French monarchy symbol that means 'Flower of the Lily,' and that's really the whole coat of arms. "My thinking was 'maybe he saw that coming, and he saw the Malachy prophecy and he picked his coat of arms to match it,' but I did some research. When you become a bishop you have to have your coat of arms in place, and if you look at the time lines of these guys' careers, most of them are bishops 30 years before they're even eligible to be pope. Minimum of 20 or so. So if you think about the sort of guesswork, you'd have to get really lucky to figure out how many popes are between you and your eligibility and when he would die, and it doesn't seem that possible to manipulate that way. Read more about "The Last Pope?" HERE. "[Malachy's] prophecy really stunningly seems to describe [Paul's] coat of arms when it says 'Flower of the Lily.'" Emmet O'Regan is a historical blogger from Northern Ireland featured in the film. He explains that Malachy's motto for Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903, was Lumen in Coelo, which means "Light in the Sky." Leo's coat of arms includes a comet in the sky on the left side. Pope Gregory IX served in the 13th century. His Malachy motto was Auis Ostiensis, or Bird of Ostia. Gregory was cardinal bishop of Ostia, and his coat of arms includes an eagle, below. So is Pope Francis indeed the "last pope"? The prophecy's moniker for his papacy is "Petrus Romanus," or "Peter the Roman." In the documentary, Tom Horn, co-author of "Petrus Romanus," says he believes the motto fits just fine. Explains Horn in the film: "We had given interviews [prior to the election of Pope Francis] saying it would be a mistake to try to nail down the last pope having the Christian name Peter, that in fact the only thing that it would take to fulfill the prophecy would be a cardinal of Italian descent. And low and behold Jorge Bergoglio, Italian descent, parents full-blooded Italians, or in the old language 'Romans.' "But he names himself after Francis of Assisi. Now this is a Catholic friar who lived in the late 1100s and the early 1200s, but his name of birth Giovanni Di Pietro Di Bernardone, Peter. He was an Italian, or Roman in the old language, a man whose name can literally be translated as 'Peter the Roman.' So to take that as a namesake, well it was intriguing to say the least." Order your DVD copy of "The Last Pope?" at the WND Superstore. BLACK YELLOWDOGS (AUTOGRAPHED) Buy "Black Yellowdogs (Autographed) (Paperback)" exclusively at the WND Superstore before its scheduled release September 10, 2013. The most dangerous citizen is not armed but uninformed. It has often been said, "What you don't know won't hurt you." Not true. Ignorance is deadly. Have you ever heard the phrase, "Forty acres and a mule"? Do you know how slavery actually began in America? 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