Ion Mihai Pacepa was a general in communist Romania’s secret police before defecting to the United States in the late 1970s. The highest-ranking defector from communism in the 1970s, he spoke recently about the connection between the Soviet Union and liberation theology in Latin America.
Ion Mahai Pacepa
In general, would you say that the spreading of liberation theology had any Soviet connection?
Yes. I learned the fine points of the KGB involvement with l…