# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ion-mihai-pacepa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:26:46.571Z

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name: "Ion Mihai Pacepa"
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description: "Ion Mihai Pacepa was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum."
tagline: "Romanian general (1928-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ion_Mihai_Pacepa_1975cr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1928-10-28"
deathDate: "2021-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump