The only way he could alert his daughter was to phone her the night before he left on July 28 on a hurriedly arranged U.S. He had told no one of his plans to defect. Five days later Pacepa was granted political asylum by the United States, the highest ranking official from the Soviet Bloc to do so. He did deliver the message, but his real purpose was a different one. His mission was to deliver a message from President Nicolae Ceausescu to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The next morning Dana-dressed in the blue jeans and khaki shirt her father has held in his memory all the years since-drove Pacepa to the airport, where he boarded a plane for West Germany. His daughter had just finished her education, had a good job, and was engaged to marry a man who truly loved her. It was a warm evening, and the magnolias in their Bucharest garden were in bloom. Then the acting chief of the Romanian espionage service, he stayed up all night that Saturday talking with his 24-year-old daughter, Dana, about her plans for the future. Ion Mihai Pacepa remembers July 23, 1978, well.
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