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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 474,960 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ion Mihai Pacepa is the 509th most popular military personnel (up from 628th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Romania (up from 97th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 509 out of 1,468Before him are Duško Popov, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, Andreas Hofer, Tamon Yamaguchi, Harold Lowe, and Husein Gradaščević. After him are Yu Jin, Max Hoffmann, Gongsun Zan, Kenji Doihara, Theodor Busse, and Fyodor Ushakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 88Before him are Desmond Morris, Wolfgang von Trips, Marco Ferreri, Gene Sharp, Gaston Thorn, and Patrick McGoohan. After him are Fats Domino, James Earl Ray, Musa al-Sadr, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Cy Twombly, and Hans Modrow. Among people deceased in 2021, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 92Before him are Antony Hewish, Mamnoon Hussain, Milva, Yuriy Sedykh, José Freire Falcão, and Hannu Mikkola. After him are Clive Sinclair, Jorge Medina, Max Mosley, Viktor Bryukhanov, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, and Lamine Diack.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Mihai Pacepa ranks 81 out of 665Before him are Ștefan Kovács (1920), Princess Ileana of Romania (1909), Chivu Stoica (1908), Petru Groza (1884), Peter Mogila (1596), and Iolanda Balaș (1936). After him are Petru Rareș (1487), Valentin Ceaușescu (1948), Ion Țiriac (1939), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), Vladimir Cosma (1940), and Olga Szabó-Orbán (1938).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Romania

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