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For whom he was a President of the Scientific Council from 2010 to 2012?

  • Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania

  • Romanian Academy of Sciences

  • National University of Political Studies and Public Administration

  • University of Bucharest

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Ion Mihai Pacepa was a President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania from 2010 to 2012. He was a Romanian general and a former high-ranking officer in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania. In 1978, he defected to the United States, becoming one of the most senior defectors from the Soviet Bloc.
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