Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism written by Ion Mihai Pacepa and Ronald J Rychlak.
Ronald J Rychlak is an American Lawyer, law professor and author. He is the Professor of Law of the Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government, and Faculty Athletics Representative at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He is also an author and contributor to multiple books like Disinformation, Hitler, the War, and the Pope. Righteous Gentiles: How Pope Pius XII Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis. The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East: Prevention, Prohibition, & Prosecution. He also has contributed to a huge selection of papers, magazines, books and programmes on history, religion, law, and politics.
Ion Mihai Pacepa was a former Lieutenant general of the secret police in Communist Romania, he defected to the United states of America in 1978. He is the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc. He was an advisor to President Nicolae Ceausescu and was acting Chief of his foreign intelligence service and a State Secretary of Romania's Ministry of Interior. After defecting he became an author and writer. With the books Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief. Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. And of course, Disinformation, He also has written for multiple publications like PJ Media, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, The Washington Times and many others.
Disinformation was first published in 2013 and is available in hardcover, digital and as an audiobook. With 429 pages in hardcover and 582 pages in digital and 13 hours and 10 minutes in its audio version.
Greeted with universal praise now and when it was first released, it is recommended reading for CIA Officers!
This book is well written and very well sourced. Its pacing is good, and it keeps your attention. The same goes for the audio version with the addition of it being well narrated by Corey Snow.
This book is not just a great read or listen, with huge amounts of meticulously sourced and detailed information, about politics, history, espionage and religion but it really is more important than ever before, in a world of mass media, social media and misinformation/disinformation. This book will really help to teach you about disinformation in all its forms. It details so many attempts by the Soviet Bloc and its affiliates as well as their successors, to warp or change history. This book will really change the way you look at the world. It will help you understand why certain people think the way they do. And why certain false facts not just exist but how and why they exist in the first place and why they are so hard to dispel and extinguish from the world. This book shows the reader how and why the west has so many dysfunctional ideas and opinions on so many different subjects. I think it also allows you the reader to spot disinformation a lot easier. The book dispels several myths about the church and gives a greater insight into the soviet’s huge efforts to destroy the church.
This book is a must, it builds your knowledge base up and makes sense of the world we live in today.
