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Ion Mihai Pacepa ((:iˈon miˈhaj paˈt͡ʃepa); born 28 October 1928 in Bucharest, Romania) is a former three-star general in the Securitate, the secret police of Communist Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum. He is the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc, and has written several books and news articles on the inner workings of the communist intelligence services. At the time of his defection, General Pacepa simultaneously had the rank of advisor to President Nicolae Ceauşescu, acting chief of his foreign intelligence service and a state secretary of Romania's Ministry of Interior. Subsequently, he worked with the American Central Intelligence Agency in various operations against the former Eastern Bloc. The CIA described his cooperation as "an important and unique contribution to the United States".〔("Red past in Romania's present" ), by Arnaud de Borchgrave , The Washington Times, January 14, 2004〕 ==Activity in the Romanian Intelligence== Ion Mihai Pacepa's father (born in 1893) grew up in Alba Iulia, the capital of the principality of Transylvania, which at that time was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, where he worked in his own father's small factory producing pots and cutlery for the kitchen. On December 1, 1918, Transylvania was united with Romania, and in 1920 Pacepa's father moved to Bucharest, where he spent all his working life at the Romanian representative of the American car company General Motors. Ion Mihai Pacepa, studied industrial chemistry at the Politehnica University of Bucharest between 1947 and 1951, but just months before graduation he was drafted by the Securitate,〔Deletant, p.322〕 and got his engineering degree only four years later.He was assigned to the Directorate of Counter-sabotage of the Securitate.〔Deletant, p.322-323〕 In 1955 he was transferred to the Directorate of Foreign Intelligence.〔Deletant, p.323〕 In 1957, Ion Mihai Pacepa was appointed head of the Romanian intelligence station in Frankfurt/Main, West Germany, where he served two years. In October 1959, Minister of the Interior Alexandru Drăghici appointed him as head of Romania's brand new industrial espionage department, called S&T from the Romanian stiinta si technologie (science and technology) of Directorate I, being the head of Romanian industrial espionage, which he managed until his defection in 1978.〔 He was involved with the establishment of Romania's automobile industry, and with the development of its microelectronic, polymer, and antibiotic industries. Between 1972 and 1978, Ion Mihai Pacepa was also President Nicolae Ceauşescu's adviser for industrial and technological development and the deputy chief of the Romanian foreign intelligence service. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ion Mihai Pacepa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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