MILITARY PERSONNEL

Ion Mihai Pacepa

1928 - 2021

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Ion Mihai Pacepa (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon miˈhaj paˈt͡ʃepa]; 28 October 1928 – 14 February 2021) was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum. He was the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc, and wrote books and articles on the inner workings of communist intelligence services. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ion Mihai Pacepa has received more than 539,794 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ion Mihai Pacepa is the 487th most popular military personnel (up from 509th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Romania (up from 81st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 487 out of 2,058. Before him are Alfred von Waldersee, Yu Jin, Adolf Strauss, Aegidius, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. After him are Husein Gradaščević, Mamai, Günther Korten, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, Yigael Yadin, and Lucius Artorius Castus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 79. Before him are Gaston Thorn, Bernard Buffet, Capucine, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Pierre Mauroy. After him are Lina Wertmüller, Pat Hitchcock, Alan J. Pakula, James Garner, Tony Richardson, and Patrick McGoohan. Among people deceased in 2021, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 66. Before him are Michel Fourniret, Larry King, Richard Donner, Anne Rice, Jehan Sadat, and Edita Gruberová. After him are Hal Holbrook, Lina Wertmüller, Jean-Luc Nancy, Pat Hitchcock, John McAfee, and Kentaro Miura.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 78 out of 844. Before him are Dositej Obradović (1742), Ștefan Kovács (1920), László Rajk (1909), Mihnea cel Rău (1462), Dinu Lipatti (1917), and David Wechsler (1896). After him are Mircea II of Wallachia (1422), Iolanda Balaș (1936), Peter Mogila (1596), Nicolae Iorga (1871), Ana Aslan (1897), and Michael Cretu (1957).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Romania

Among military personnels born in Romania, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 3. Before him are Alexander Löhr (1885), and Petre Dumitrescu (1882). After him are Artur Phleps (1881), Constantin Prezan (1861), Arthur Arz von Straußenburg (1857), Michael von Melas (1729), Constantin Constantinescu-Claps (1884), Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia (1859), Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894), Franz Rohr von Denta (1854), and Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten (1860).

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