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Disinformation
- Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom Attacking Religion and Promoting Terrorism
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. A quarter century ago, in his international bestseller Red Horizons, Pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, giving the dictator a nervous breakdown and inspiring him to send assassination squads to the U.S. to find his former spy chief and kill him. They failed. On Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was executed by his own people at the end of a trial whose accusations came almost word-for-word out of Red Horizons.
Today, still living undercover in the United States, the man credited by the CIA as the only person in the Western world who single-handedly demolished an entire enemy espionage service - the one he himself managed - takes aim at an even bigger target: the exotic, widely misunderstood but still astonishingly influential realm of the Russian-born "science" of disinformation. Indeed, within this audiobook, Pacepa, along with his co-author, historian and law professor Ronald Rychlak, expose some of the most consequential yet largely unknown disinformation campaigns of our lifetime.
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- Kindle Customer
- 14-04-19
not bad but expected more insight
i expected the author to focus more on actual topics and todays rampant neomarxism and progresivism in the west and how the kgb managed inplement those ideologies so successful in the US and Europe - something like Yuri Bezmonov exposed in the 80ties. instead the author focuses more on rehabilitating pope Pius and also the Kennedy assissination, which are not bad topics per se, but I just expected more info on the deception tactics of kgb and the impact it has until now. Also he despises his former boss Ceauvescu and the communist regime but kind of worked for him more than 20years. he mentioned also his dad also wanted always to go to the US but somehow his son managed to get so high up in the ranks in a communistic regime- no normal person could have such a career if his parents werent involved politically and good communist. So I am taking this book with a grain of salt, the performance of the reader however was very good and I enjoyed listening.
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- Fishforreal
- 21-01-19
Disinformation a History
I found the author's account very interesting and engaging. I don't think the basic premise of disinformation is unfamiliar to most with an interest in politics or history but the review of Soviet involvement and development was intriguing.
I feel that the author has overreached somewhat in his application of the disinformation analysis to the recent US elections. The analysis presented leaves many unanswered questions such as what the Republican campaign was doing and Mitt Romney himself is only spoken about in glowing terms. It was distasteful to compare Obama to Ceausescu which he states he doesn't want to but then goes on at length. No individual in politics is likely to be above reproach but this seemed a bridge too far. The author also cited facts about the US debt for which the blame is laid at Obama's door. This is just plain lazy and some might say a form of disinformation as it used the kernel of truth and viewed it through a partisan lens.
All this being said I did enjoy the book overall.
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- johntl123
- 06-02-18
Brilliant insight
Excellent book about Soviet strategies during the cold war by Mihai Pacepa a real insight into the workings of Communism.
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- Karol
- 18-04-17
A unique read!
It has been incredible to listen to a former spy chief revealing secrets of trade.
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- Angus
- 05-03-19
Dripping with bias
I will start by saying that I detest communism so I am not criticising the book for the views of the author.
I will say that the author routinely draws conclusions from thin air makes baseless claims and allusions, such as his suggestion that South Americans may have a gene which impacts their ability to learn from past events.
He routinely attributes 100 million deaths to the Soviet regime, most of that in peace time, sometimes even including WW2 civilian deaths in the total number. Though the death toll from communism was huge, this number is almost certainly an exaggeration that serves to discredit those who quote more realistic numbers.
He also briefly mentions the formation of the NHS while listing examples of failed nationalisations of industry which is laughable. He even went as far as to say that Clement Atlee was an undercover Marxist agent. He even makes a baseless claim that the democratic party in the usa seeks to nationalise industries on the scale that was seen with Atlee in the UK.
His arguments referring to earlier events, with which he had personal experience, seem to be rooted in fact. However as he discuses more recent events, his conclusions become increasingly based on "this looks kind of like what I've seen so it's a Russian conspiracy" and he even resorts to using fox news as a source. It also became clear that as he discussed more recent events, the amount of times he would actually back up his claims of Russian involvement became more and more sparse, constantly referring back to near irrelevant past examples or experiences.
I will also add that he is incredibly dismissive of almost all criticism of the USA, pinning the cause of essentially all anti-war feelings as Russian disinformation.
I made it to part 44 out of 48 and would not recommend this book for anyone who is looking for a good book about Russian meddling abroad as it presents the views of an incredibly biased man who draws primarily draws conclusions from personal experience and feelings, which become increasingly irrelevant for more recent events.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-08-22
An interesting book on disinformation, riddled with disinformation.
The introduction of this book seems to set the tone, reducing history and international politics into simply black and white, a question of good or evil. One can understand that people working in intelligence view the world in such a manner, but to claim we live in a post-ideological world where the USA only works to spread freedom and democracy, seems like a far reach for anyone outside of the US.
There are many interesting and enlightening stories in this book, about pope Pious XII, mr Pacepas personal involvement in intelligence and disinformation, and the theories surrounding the JFK assassination.
My biggest problem with this book are the claims such as Olof Palme beeing a «secret socialist» and that he was spreading the dangerous form of social democracy that Scandinavia is known for, these claims are stated as facts, there are no mentions of how the USSR were suspected to be involved in his assasination.
By the end of the book there are also some strange comparisons of Obama and Ceaușescu, how Obama used the mention of «me» and «my» in his speeches to such a degree that one could question if he suffered from the same megalomania as Ceaușescu, and then goes on to list the venues named after Obama.
In my view, these parts discredits the rest of the book. I was hoping for an enlightening book about Soviet and US disinformation, but the author makes no attempt at nuance, no attempt to enlighten the reader with different well formulated claims, but rather makes statements about different oppinions he holds.
Without these statements this could have been a book that would seem credible.
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