Quotes from Ion Mihai Pacepa

Stalin scribbled on an intelligence report predicting that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union in June 1941: 'You can send your source to his f*cking mother. This is disinformation.

The truth is, the Western media are quite easily manipulated, for they often craft their stories from press releases and tend, on the whole, to be indiscriminate about the nature and reliability of their sources.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the world's democracies numbered fewer than a dozen. Since this imperfect United States of America became the recognized leader of the world, 80 percent of the countries on Planet Earth are either democracies or proto-democracies.

The barbarous KGB, which in the course of its existence slaughtered at least 20 million people at home and another 70 million throughout the communist world, not only survived, but it also transformed today's Russia into the first intelligence dictatorship in history. Now

In the highly classified manual of dezinformatsiya that codified my life within the Soviet intelligence community, it was proclaimed on the first page, all in upper case letters: "IF YOU ARE GOOD AT DISINFORMATION, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING.

The Soviets were also happy to use American art forms to advance their cause in the United States. By the 1940s, American communists had fully embraced and significantly co-opted folk music. The American Communist Party was essentially an agency of the Soviet government. "Folk singers had become a ceremonial part of Communist Party meetings.

Dans Horizons rouges, j'ai essayé de peindre la vie quotidienne à la cour d'un dictateur communiste. CeauÈ™escu rêve d'être vénéré comme un nouveau Roi-Soleil, être reconnu par l'Histoire comme le Napoléon roumain et sa femme fait des efforts désespérés pour être considérée comme la déesse roumaine de la sagesse et de l'élégance. (Préface à l'édition française)

La Roumanie est en guerre avec le capitalisme, intervint CeauÈ™escu. (Il bégaie toujours légèrement lorsqu'il aborde un sujet important ou lorsqu'il est en colère.) N-nous ne p-pouvons pas vaincre avec les m-machines à l-laver. C-ce sont des d-dollars qui n-nous faut pour p-protéger la l-liberté de n-notre peuple. Et n-nous gagnerons plus de d-dollars en vendant des armes que des appareils m-ménagers. (p. 40)