{"id":511,"date":"2004-02-27T01:34:28","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T08:34:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-02-27T01:34:28","modified_gmt":"2004-02-27T08:34:28","slug":"national-reviews-pet-communist-thug-a-bleg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/27\/national-reviews-pet-communist-thug-a-bleg\/","title":{"rendered":"National Review&#8217;s Pet Communist Thug: A Bleg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/comment\/pacepa200402260828.asp>Another delightful article<\/a> on NRO today from Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime Communist thug in charge of Romania&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.ceausescu.org\/ceausescu_texts\/revolution\/die.htm>DIE<\/a>, current neoconservative flak. The typical Pacepa essay, I&#8217;ve noticed, opens with a brief &#8220;trust me, I&#8217;ve hung with some bad mofos&#8221; hook to reel the Tom Clancy devotees in. It then proceeds to explain how Pacepa, under direct orders from Andropov\/Ceaucescu\/Stalin\/Marx\/Satan, created the antiwar movement\/ACLU\/PLO\/ NAMBLA\/childproof aspirin lids to destroy Western civilization. Not that Pacepa, who eventually jumped to the CIA, wanted to do any of these things, you understand. His thirty-year rise to Ceaucescu&#8217;s top cop was just a typical Commie administrative blunder. A foul-up in payroll, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I bet. My suspicion is that Mr. Pacepa simply changed his address, not his stripes. If you have any interesting info about Pacepa&#8217;s career in Romania or the United States, please send me links, print citations, etc., preferably in English (but Romanian is also OK).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another delightful article on NRO today from Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime Communist thug in charge of Romania&#8217;s DIE, current neoconservative flak. The typical Pacepa essay, I&#8217;ve noticed, opens with a brief &#8220;trust me, I&#8217;ve hung with some bad mofos&#8221; hook to reel the Tom Clancy devotees in. It then proceeds to explain how Pacepa, under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":0,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","_social_image_id":false,"_social_image_url":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}