Dark Side Of Colin Powell's Blonde Romanian Friend

Exclusive: Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa provides background on much-publicized cyber-affair

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Editor’s note: Few people know more about Romania and spies than Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa. The former head of that country’s foreign intelligence service, a quarter century ago after defecting to the U.S. Pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu in his international bestseller “Red Horizons.” The book gave the dictator a nervous breakdown and inspired him to send assassination squads to the U.S. to find his former spy chief and kill him. Not only did all such assassination attempts fail, but ironically Ceausescu was executed by his own people at the end of a trial whose accusations came almost word-for-word out of “Red Horizons.” Once in America, Pacepa became a major asset to the CIA’s efforts to deal with the “evil empire” of the Soviet Union, and President Ronald Reagan reportedly referred to “Red Horizons” as “my bible for dealing with dictators.”

Pacepa, along with historian and law professor Ronald Rychlak, recently authored the much-talked-about blockbuster book “Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism.”

Remember when unattached male visitors to Moscow or one of the other Soviet bloc capitals somehow routinely fell into some variation of the sexual entrapment scenario? We have been living happily under the delusion that, since the “fall of communism,” those crude Cold War recruitment approaches have become a thing of the past.

But old habits die hard. A new generation of sexy intelligence agents – known in the old days as “swallows” – is still around. But now they ply their trade all around the world, especially at international conferences, where they show off their impressive political credentials and very sexy clothes.

Unfortunately, we have recently learned that a great American patriot and honorable human being, the esteemed four-star general, Colin Powell, may have been the target of such an intelligence trap. We do not know precisely when this long liaison started and how physically intimate it became – indeed, Powell has publicly denied there was ever an affair and he may be essentially innocent. But here are some sobering facts about the other party in the relationship, suggesting it was shaped in the old KGB mold.

The attractive blonde Christina Cretu, now a member of the European Parliament where she is vice-chair of the Progressive Alliance of Socialism and Democracy, is the charmer in question. A 2011 book signed by Eugen Mihăescu, a famous Cold War cartoonist for the New York Times who became senator in post-Ceausescu Romania, once called her “the red courtier of the Stalinist closet.”

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