“Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo.” (A drop cuts through stone not by force, but by constant dripping.)
Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa passed away quietly on February 14, 2021 at the age of 92, following a Covid-19 hospitalization. Ion Mihai Pacepa, Highest-Ranking Soviet Bloc Defector To The West, Reported Dead At 92 (Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, (RFERL) Feb.16, 2021 )
Gen. Pacepa worked in the much-dreaded Romanian Securitate Intelligence Agency from 1951 until 1978 when he defected to the U.S., having been granted political asylum under Jimmy Carter. Under assumed identities, he was able to elude and survive Ceausescu’s agents who were bent on revenge and on collecting the $1 million reward for his capture, dead or alive.