ROMANIAN SPY CALLS RUSSIAN TIES STRONG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000302330008-6
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 10, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
10 December 1985
Romanian spy calls Russian ties strong
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A former top-level Romanian in-
telligenceofficerbelieves covert ties
between Romanian and Soviet intel-
ligence services remain strong de-
spite appearances that the Eastern
European nation has maintained an
"independent" foreign policy from
Moscow
Former Romanian Deputy Chief
of Foreign Intelligence Ion M.
Pacepa in written testimony re-
leasedlastweek by the Senate inves-
tigations subcommittee said the Ro-
manian spy service, known by its
acronym CIE, supplies its "intelli-
gence product" to Moscow on a reg-
ular basis.
"Even in cases where the Roma-
nian government has given the West
its solemn guarantees that informa-
tion provided to it would be kept se-
cret and that sensitive equipment
sold to it would not be released to any
third party, it has not kept its word,"
Mr. Pacepa states.
Secretary of State George Shultz.
is expected to travel to Romania Dec.
15 for talks with Romanian leaders.
A State Department spokesman
said the discussions will include hu-
man rights and religious issues and
an explanation of congressional atti-
tudes toward Romania's Most Fa-
vored Nation trading status with the
United States. Romania's trade sta-
tuslinks favorable tariff rates to free
emigration policies.
Last week spokesman Bernard
Kalb said the State Department op-
poses recent proposals in Congress
to deny Romania favorable trading
status since MFN "is important in
encouraging Romania's relative for-
eign policy independence:'
But Mr. Pacepa, in his testimony,
urged canceling Romania's MFN
status unless the government there
agrees to renounce espionage
against the United States. He said
the Warsaw Pact foreign intelligence
services operating against the
United States are "the largest and
best organized:'
Mr. Pacepa, a former adviser to
Romanian strongman Nicolae
Ceausescu, said that before defect-
ing in 1978 he was the official re-
sponsible for getting Western gov-.
ernments to sell technology and
military equipment to Romania to
promote its independence from
Moscow
Mr. Pacepa said a's Mr. Ceauses-
cu's personal emissary he was in-
structed to "use my imagination in
supplying the highest guarantees of
secrecy."
Mr. Pacepa provided an example
of how Romania exploited its
psuedo-independence in 1977-78. He
said Mr. Ceausescu wrote to then-
West German Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt providing "solemn guaran-
tees" that a proposed transfer of
German airplane and tank technol-
ogy would not be passed on to other
countries.
But after West Germany signed
an agreement with Romania,
"Ceausescu secretly informed Lib-
ya's strongman, Col. Muammar Qad-
daffi, that Romania would produce
bombers and airplanes for para-
chute jumping patterned after West
German Fokker models, and tanks
patterned after NATO's Leopard II;'
Mr. Pacepa said.
"[Mr. Ceausescu] asked Qaddaffi
to finance these projects with the
understanding that he would be able
to buy as much of the production as
he wanted ai preferential prices,"
Mr. Pacepa said.
After Soviet troops left Romania
in the early 1960s, "subordination to
Moscow was changed;' Mr. Pacepa
said. From that period on, Moscow
has not received "specific data" on
Romanian intelligence sources and
operations. "But it has received the
significant intelligence product:'
During trips to Moscow, Mr. Pacepa
found "information in the KGB com-
puter system that Romania had sent
only to Budapest or Sofia and not to
Moscow"
On the issue of Romanian emigra-
tion, Mr. Pacepa said Mr. Ceausescu
in 1972 decreed that "no Romanian
citizen ...should receive an emigra-
tionvisa unless he is a security agent
and has a previous written secret
agreement to cooperate with a secu-
rity unit "
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