Ion Mihai Pacepa: Old woes revisit Romania
DACIA LAN
>From: "Michael Yared" mya...@erols.com
>Date: 3/18/01 10:36 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <993ujh$bop$1...@bob.news.rcn.net>
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>Old woes revisit Romania
>
>Ion Mihai Pacepa
According to the statement written by Ion Mihai Pacepa, in his demented mind
he believes that he is still a General and a head of the Romanian Intelligence
Secret Service (Securitatea) and has the power in his hands to brutally crack
down the Iron Guard movement as he did 25 years ago. Mr. Pacepa who had the
highest-ranks and the highest positions in the most brutal and criminal regime
in Romania did not mention a word about the abuse, persecution, terror,
genocide and communist holocaust against the Romanian nation and humanity
committed by him and his Secret Police, but is very worried about the
re-flourishing of the Iron Guard and other nationalist and anti-Semitic
movements in Romania. I know from a trusted source that Mr. Pacepa, who is a
Jew, joined the Romanian Intelligence Secret Service (the Romanian KGB) with
the purpose of destroying, torturing and murdering Romanian nationalists,
especially members of the Iron Guard. And he continues to be a fanatic and a
great pain in the ass for Romanian freedom fighters.
Mr. Pacepa mentioned that life for Romanians is miserable because the same
Communist faces were elected to rule Romania. This is true, but it is less
miserable now than when Mr. Pacepa was in power, when a simple citizen would
glance at the sky and see an airplane, and would be accused and arrested for
suspicion of looking for American airplanes to come and liberate Romania from
Communist dictatorship. This is a small example compared to the severity of
other tragic incidents. Why now Mr. Pacepa do you keep all of those tragedies
that Romanians suffered in the past well hidden and pretend that you are a
"hero" and a good American? Shame on you! You should be brought to justice.
You are a terrorist and a Communist criminal Mr. Pacepa. So don't even think
that President Bush who is an American Right-winger will take your insane
advice to take action against Romanian nationalists, anti-Communists, and the
Iron Guard. And don't forget that his father said "F*** the Jews..." and that
his grandfather was a leader and a great supporter of the American Nazi party.
Perhaps you Mr. Pacepa use the name Michael Yared because you like changing
your name the way Gypsies like changing their horses, but this doesn't impress
or intimidate anyone.
I am one of the leaders of the New Iron Guard, who was horribly persecuted by
you and your subordinates under the Communist dictatorship regime, so don't
mess with us. We are not living in the period of 1944-1989 anymore. Enough is
enough, we will not tolerate you insulting, harassing, or threatening us. You
are a Jewish-Communist bastard, a piece of shit, so go f*** yourself. If you
want, you can run and tell your friends from the CIA and the FBI that I, a
victim of your oppressive Communist regime from Romania said this to you.
ALEXANDRU SOARE
>
> Anti-Semitism is erupting in Romania, for the first time since the fall
>of communism.
> On Feb. 22, the prestigious German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung
>devoted a long feature story to the ugly business, and 20 days earlier, the
>Anti-Defamation League, B'nai B'rith International and The American Jewish
>Committee asked the new Romanian president, Ion Iliescu, to stop
>rehabilitating Nazi-era leaders.
> It was an unusually tough letter: Statues as well as plaques and
>street-namings in honor (of the infamous anti-Semite Marshal Ion Antonescu),
>represent official homage to one of the darkest periods in Romania's past.
>Permit us to add that it would be wholly inconsistent with Romania's
>chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
>(OSCE) for it to be the only country in Europe to honor the memory of a
>World War II fascist leader.
> The new anti-Semites are none other than the old communists, once
>again in the majority in Parliament, and who are using rabid nationalism and
>vicious anti-Semitism to distract attention from their own past and from the
>ongoing social and political crisis of the country. To be sure, there is
>nothing new about communists embracing nationalism, and anti-Semitism was
>cynically used by Nicolae Ceausescu, as by so many other dictators before
>him.
> These old traditions have been reinforced by the suffering of the
>people: Since 1990, the Romanians have tried to cope with state-controlled
>capitalism run by old communist bureaucrats, and now they fear a
>Western-style market economy would make their lives even more miserable. The
>nationalists are perceived as the last barrier against the rapacity of the
>new capitalists and Romania's economically expanding neighbours.
> One of the communist parliamentarians who rechristened themselves as
>nationalists is Tudor Corneliu Vadim, once a court poet to the Ceausescu
>family. Mr. Vadim leads Romania's most anti-Semitic party, Romania Mare,
>which in November became the second-largest in the country's Parliament.
> The vice-president of the Senate, Gheorghe Buzatu, is another: A
>former communist historian, he is now flooding the country with writings
>aimed at reviving the Iron Guard, Romania's wartime fascist party, and at
>rehabilitating its bloody leaders.
> Constantin Florescu, one of the authors of Ceausescu's mini-cultural
>revolution, has recycled himself as an anti-Semitic and anti-Hungarian
>activist and is now another leading member of the Parliament.
> These old Ceausescu loyalists are working hard to place the country's
>most important legislative and executive positions in the hands of former
>officers of the dreaded communist Securitate (the Romanian KGB), and to
>resurrect their control over society.
> Two of these efforts are especially telling. Ristea Priboi, who worked
>for communist Romania's espionage service when I was at its helm, has become
>chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the country's foreign
>intelligence operations.
> On Feb. 7, Mr. Priboi solemnly swore he had never been connected with
>former communist intelligence organizations, but the media revealed that in
>the 1970s he served as a spy under diplomatic cover in England, and that in
>the 1980s he was deputy chief of the foreign intelligence department in
>charge of operations against Radio Free Europe.
> If the last revelation is correct, Mr. Priboi must have played a role
>in the bloody terrorist operations carried out by this department against
>Radio Free Europe after I defected: the 1981 terrorist attack against its
>Munich headquarters carried out with help from Carlos the Jackal, in which
>eight people were wounded; the assassination attempt on Emil Georgescu, one
>of the station's political editors, who was stabbed 22 times in that attack;
>and the assassination attempt in Paris against the internationally known
>dissident writer Paul Goma, which was so vicious that French President
>Francois Mitterrand postponed an official visit to Bucharest and called the
>Romanian espionage service a band of murderers.
> The appointment of retired Gen. Tudor Tanase to head Romania's
>electronic monitoring system is another very bad sign. He was also at one
>time my subordinate in communist Romania's espionage service. According to
>his just published official biography, after I broke with communism, Gen.
>Tanase was transferred to the Securitate's electronic monitoring department,
>where he rose to the position of deputy chief, and he was sent to the
>reserves in 1987, when Romania's crypto-communist government was ousted from
>power.
> In 1990, I suggested that Romania's post-Ceausescu leaders open the
>enormous electronic monitoring and mail censorship centers to the public, as
>they had done with Ceausescu's palaces, and that they transform them into
>museums of freedom. This was not done, and it seems instead that they are
>again being used for spying on the general population.
> These communists now dressed in chauvinist clothes could make life
>miserable for Romania's population, but what might happen in that small
>country could hardly threaten world peace.
> On the other hand, Romania occupies a geographically strategic
>position, and its pre-World War II democratic traditions do provide reason
>to believe it could be brought back into the Western world.
> It will take some doing, both in Washington and Romania. Last
>December, former President Clinton, who went out of his way to help the
>Romanian communists return to power, sent them a letter promising full
>support from the United States. It was a terrible thing to do: Such people
>should not be supported in any way.
> Nevertheless, I truly believe President Bush should help the Romanians
>see how ugly their government looks to civilized men and women. There is
>plenty of evidence people can change, if they see the truth.
> Under communism, I held governmental positions that were just as high
>as those held at that same time by President Iliescu, and I did change. The
>prime minister of Romania, Adrian Nastase, belongs to the same generation as
>my daughter, who is much more interested in the future than in the past.
> President Bush seems to have a magical talent for changing the
>American people's minds. He should try his hand abroad as well.
>
>Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence officer to defect to the
>West during the Cold War, was the chief of the Romanian Intelligence
>Service. He is the author of "Red Horizons."
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