Fuga generalului Pacepa, reacţia lui Ceauşescu şi asigurările date României de guvernul american, 1978-1987
General Ion Mihai Pacepa Defection, Ceauşescu’s Reaction and the Assurances of the American Government, 1978-1987

Summary/Abstract: General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the operative chief of the Romanian Intelligence, vanished in the evening of 28 July 1978 from a hotel in Köln. A few days later, the west german press announced that the general had been taken over by the CIA for which he had worked for several years and was taken in to the United States where he was offered political asylum. This article reproduces the only two existing transcripts of discussion at the level of Communist leadership regarding Pacepa’s case on 14 and 16 August 1978. The 14 August transcript contains the assurances provided by the American government that they will not use Pacepa case in a mediatic campaign against Romania and President Ceauşescu. The article presents Pacepa’s case evolution, Nicolae Ceauşescu’s first reactions, the Romanian-American talks in August-December 1978 on the matter. In 1987, the American government broke the agreement and allowed Pacepa to get involved in the mediatic campaign against Romania. The author presents the context of this decision and what justified it.

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