Ion Mihai Pacepa talks about the killing of the U.S. Ambassador in Benghazi, which we know, despite what Mrs. Clinton said, was not a spontaneous response to a film about Muslims:
"My past experience at the top of the Soviet bloc intelligence community gives me solid ground to state that the Muslim attacks on U.S. embassies and the assassination of our ambassador to Libya, carried out with Soviet-made rocket-propelled grenades, Kalashnikovs and Molotov cocktails, were just as “spontaneous” as the May Day parades in Moscow – and that they have the same organisers".
He is certainly not very trustworthy but since he was working for the KGB (not the CIA) this is probably true.
KGB and the Securitate were not the same thing.
ReplyDeleteUSSR and/or the Russian Federation have been the worst empire of all empires I've ever heard of.
But using "Soviet-made rocket-propelled grenades, Kalashnikovs and Molotov cocktails" proves nothing.
Romania could use MiG 21 Lancers to attack Bulgaria, but that wouldn't mean that Russia had anything to do with it. Bulgaria could use BMP-23 in an attack against Romania, but that wouldn't prove Russian influence either.
KGB and the Securitate were not the same thing.
ReplyDeleteUSSR and/or the Russian Federation have been the worst empire of all empires I've ever heard of.
But using "Soviet-made rocket-propelled grenades, Kalashnikovs and Molotov cocktails" proves nothing.
Romania could use MiG 21 Lancers to attack Bulgaria, but that wouldn't mean that Russia had anything to do with it. Bulgaria could use BMP-23 in an attack against Romania, but that wouldn't prove Russian influence either.
But Pacepa I believe was a treble agent and really working for the KGB not the CIA. Oh those Cold War thrillers.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's an interesting cold war thriller hypothesis, but I doubt two things:
ReplyDelete1. the CIA not being aware of that possibility
2. Pacepa being able to obtain useful information in his position of "being in the hands of the CIA" and still be able to transmit it back to the KGB.
I'm no expert, it's just my amateurish opinion that Pacepa thought that the Communist block was less likely to have the upper hand and will sooner or later collapse because of corruption, social outburst and lack of sustainable/logical social order; and then he only wanted to save his sorry ass.
But I'll read your novel if you're writing one on this matter.
Larry Watts told me is certain Pacepa was KGB which Watts says is why Pacepa has not been given US citizenship.
ReplyDeleteWhat are Larry Watts' main arguments for that? I'm not familiar with his writings.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been too obvious and rather silly from the KGB to assign such an open mission to Pacepa unless they had thought of it as a diversionary tactic.
Some are convinced the Cold War has ended 22 years ago. There is however evidence we are on a different stage of the very same Cold War. There is also enough evidence to think Communism didn't die, we simply live a different stage of. In order for Communism to vanish it must be destroyed at home: in Western Europe.
ReplyDeleteI really do not know except that according to Larry, the USSR considered Romania almost as much an enemy as the USA
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