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ASHINGTON -- The highest-rank- sassination squads to the U.S. to find his former spy ing Soviet bloc intelligence of- chief and kill him. They failed. On Christmas Day Wficial ever to defect to the West, 1989, Ceausescu was executed by his own people Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. at the end of a trial whose accusations came almost A quarter century ago, in his international bestsell- word-for-word out of Red Horizons. er Red Horizons, Pacepa exposed the massive crimes Still living undercover in the United States, and corruption of his former boss, Romanian the man credited by the CIA as the only person in President Nicolae Ceausescu, giving the dictator a the Western world who single-handedly demol- nervous breakdown and inspiring him to send as- ished an entire enemy espionage service – the one he himself managed – takes aim at an even bigger target: the exotic, widely misunderstood but still as- tonishingly influential realm of the Russian-born “science” of disinformation. Today, WND Books released nationally Disin- formation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Under- mining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism. In it, Pacepa, along with his co-author, historian and law professor Ronald Rychlak, expose some of the most consequential yet largely unknown disinfor- mation campaigns of our lifetime. “This remarkable book will change the way you look at intelligence, foreign affairs, the press, and much else besides,” says R. James Woolsey, for- mer Director of Central Intelligence, who wrote the book’s introduction. Here the reader will discover answers to many crucial questions of the modern era: Why, during the last two generations, has so much of the Western world turned against its founding faith, Christiani- ty? Why have radical Islam, jihad and terrorism burst aflame after a long period of apparent quiescence? Why is naked Marxism increasingly manifesting in America and its NATO allies? What really happened to Russia after the Berlin Wall came down? Like the

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solution to a giant jigsaw puzzle lacking one crucial • How the defamatory attacks on American piece, Disinformation authoritatively provides the miss- soldiers John Kerry made before Congress ing dimension that makes the chaos of the modern upon his return from Vietnam – charges later world finally understandable. discredited and repudiated – were identical By its very nature, a disinformation campaign to a contemporaneous KGB disinformation can work only if the seemingly independent West- campaign concocted to turn Americans against ern press accepts intentionally fabricated lies and their own leaders. presents them to the public as truth. Thus, Pacepa and Rychlak also document how the U.S. “main- • How supposedly respectable institutions stream media’s” enduring sympathy for all things like the World Council of Churches have long liberal-left has made it vulnerable to – indeed, the been infiltrated and controlled by Russian prime carrier of – civilization-transforming cam- intelligence. paigns of lying, defamation and historical revision- • How much of the world came to believe ism that turn reality on its head. that the U.S. government itself masterminded In Disinformation, you’ll discover: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

• How destroying the reputation of good • How the Soviet Union has been leaders has been developed into a high art and transformed into the first intelligence science. dictatorship in history. • How Pope Pius XII – a generation ago • How disinformation is still very much the world’s most high-profile Christian leader, alive in the age of Obama, remaining a powerful who personally saved countless Jews from Hitler’s engine in the ongoing socialist transformation Holocaust – was transformed, through the magic of America. of disinformation, into a Nazi sympathizer. • How Christianity and Judaism have All this and much more is meticulously docu- been targeted for constant denigration and mented in Disinformation, with the credibility of an defamation through an ongoing campaign of eyewitness who was not only there, but actively in- disinformation. volved as a Soviet bloc spy chief – who, thanks to a crisis of conscience, “left the dark side” and came to • How the Soviet bloc planted 4,000 America to help shine a light on the greatest source agents of influence in the Islamic world, armed of political evil of the modern age. with hundreds of thousands of copies of the most infamous anti-Semitic book in history, to fan IMPORTANT NOTE: To be released simultane- the flames of ancient Arab resentments against ously with the book today will be a companion, fea- the U.S. and Israel and sow the seeds of anti- ture-length film documentary from WND Films, Semitism that would later bloom in the form of titled Disinformation: The Secret Strategy to Destroy the West. violence and terror toward Jews and Christians. Disinformation is on sale now.

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