Pinstripes and Reds: An American Ambassador Caught Between the State Department and the Romanian Communists, 1981-1985

Inscribed by author to Ion Pacepa. [Interesting provenance, from the library of Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Wear to dj. "Ion Mihai Pacepa was a top Romanian intelligence officer who became the highest-ranking defector from the Soviet bloc when he fled Romania and sought asylum in the United States. Pacepa joined the Securitate intelligence agency in 1951 and rose in its ranks. At the time of his defection in 1978, Pacepa was a top general in Romania's much-feared Securitate secret police. He was also an adviser to dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and he held other top security posts in the government.".