Top Soviet-bloc defector: Marxism infecting U.S.

By Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa

Editor’s note: Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is the
highest-ranking Soviet-bloc official ever to defect to the West. In
December 1989, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu was executed at the
end of a trial whose accusations came almost word-for-word out of
Pacepa’s book, “Red Horizons,” subsequently republished in 27 countries.

After President Carter approved his request for political asylum,
Pacepa became an American citizen and worked with U.S. intelligence
agencies against the former Eastern Bloc. The CIA has praised Pacepa’s
cooperation for providing “an important and unique contribution to the
United States.”

A few weeks ago I read “America’s Marxist Picnic,” a touching story by WND’s David Kupelian, which illustrates how much the U.S. government hated Marxism a generation ago.