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Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian spy and star defector who revealed the sordid reality of the Ceausescus and their regime – obituary
Pacepa spilt the beans on Communist intelligence as well as on Ceausescu family life, a world of corruption, debauchery and violence
Ion Mihai Pacepa, 1975
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Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former deputy chief of DIE (Departamentul de Informatii Externe), Communist Romania’s espionage service, who has died of Covid-19 aged 92, was the highest-ranking spy to defect to the West.
In June 1978, when the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu travelled to Britain with his wife Elena, it marked the first time a Communist head of state had made a state visit to the UK.
(RNS) The debate about the late Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust what he knew and why he did not openly denounce it has been hotly contested for decades in articles, books and conferences. In Berlin, it’s now taken to the streets.
To one street, to be more precise. The Pacelliallee, a tree-lined boulevard in western Berlin, bears the name of Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican’s nuncio in Germany from 1917 to 1929 who later became Pope Pius XII.
The long-awaited opening of the Vatican archives from World War II last March, allowing the closest look yet at Pius’ diplomacy, has excited rival researchers sifting the files for a rationale for his relations with the Nazi regime: proof, in other words, that he was an outright anti-Semite, as some allege, a secret Germanophile or simply a cautious diplomat.
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