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A Personal Perspective on Ion Mihai Pacepa

A Personal Perspective on Ion Mihai Pacepa
Ion Mihai Pacepa in 1975. He died on February 14, 2021. Anghel Pasat/Agerpres Arhiva
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A man walked into the American Embassy in West Germany in late July, 1978. He said he was a senior officer in an Eastern European Intelligence Service and wanted to defect to the United States. Would he be accepted?

Wayne A. Barnes
Wayne A. Barnes
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Wayne A. Barnes worked foreign counterintelligence cases in his 29-year career in the FBI. He has completed a manuscript about his part in the investigation to uncover the KGB’s mole in the FBI—Robert Hanssen—and is pursuing publication.
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