Disinformation

The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, is at it again. 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 ran--now takes aim at an even bigger target: the exotic, widely misunderstood but still astonishingly influential realm of disinformation.

Within these pages, Pacepa, along with his co-author, historian and law professor Ronald Rychlak, answer many of the crucial questions of our time: Why has so much of the Western world turned against its founding faith, Christianity? Why have radical Islam, jihad, and terrorism burst aflame after a long period of apparent quiescence? What really happened to Russia after the Berlin Wall came down?

Like the solution to a jigsaw puzzle lacking one crucial piece, Disinformation authoritatively provides the missing dimension that makes the chaos of the modern world finally understandable.

Ronald Rychlak of Oxford, MS Ronald J. Rychlak is a law professor at the University of Mississippi, has been Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and currently serves as the Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA and the SEC. A graduate of Wabash College and Vanderbilt University, Rychlak originally practiced law in Chicago. Appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court to a committee to revise that state's criminal code, he is also an adviser to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and the author or co-author of seven books.

Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet Bloc, served as acting chief of communist Romania's espionage service and top adviser to President Nicolae Ceausescu.Today, with assassination threats and million-dollar rewards still hanging over his head because of his defection, Pacepa lives in the U.S. under a CIA-protective identity and, now in his 80s, remains active as an astute and uniquely insightful writer on current affairs.