|
|
|
|
|
|
Resources |
|
|
|
Love and Tyranny, Romanian Style
| Article
# : |
14521 |
|
|
Section : |
BOOK WORLD
|
| Issue
Date : |
3 / 1988 |
2,961 Words |
| Author
: |
Donald Jamison
Donald Jamison is a former CIA Soviet specialist and has been
a contributor to Problems of Communism and Strategic Review. |
RED HORIZONS
Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1987
446 pp., $19.95
Red Horizons can be read on several levels:
· as the memoir of the final six months of a top communist official's life before he chose freedom in the West;
· as a broad farce, featuring the Red Queen, her consort, and her court of sycophants in a squalid burlesque of nineteenth-century middle European nobility;
· as a detailed account of the varieties of clandestine operations conducted by a small communist country against the outside world; or, most importantly,
· as a unique account of the strategic use of deception, manipulation, and disinformation as the fundamental means for the realization of state policy goals.
Those who have studied the Soviet bloc's use of covert action (called "active measures" by the KGB) have rarely succeeded in passing on to the uninitiated a full understanding of the way these techniques are used by communist regimes. Red Horizons, written by a man who ran the system, does, however, succeed where others have failed because he provides an authentic view of the whole apparatus--not just descriptions of pieces of the elephant from which deductions can be made, but the whole beast. [See related
... (1994 of 18187 Characters)
Read Full Article
|
|
