Communist Defector Endorses Washington Conference to "Vet" Obama  Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc official ever to defect to the West, tells me that "€¦President Obama should have no reason to hide his Marxist upbringing. Unless he is still a Marxist, and is not able to defend it." Pacepa has endorsed our July 19 "Vetting" conference at the National Press Club, saying too much of Obama's background is still shrouded in mystery. "I hope this conference will be a turning point in our political life," Pacepa said. "I hope that its speakers and some of the participants who have lived in the sanctum sanctorum of Marxist countries, as I did, will help the United States understand that Marxism is indefensible." Pacepa, who ran Romania's espionage service but defected and later wrote a book exposing Soviet KGB involvement in the assassination of JFK, cannot attend personally because of threats to his safety and security. The conference is open to the public and the press and features the first Washington speech by Professor Paul Kengor about his new book on Obama's communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Pacepa commented, "I understand that Paul Kengor's new and scrupulously documented book The Communist proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that President Obama was educated as a Marxist." The Kengor speech will examine FBI documents about and the writings of Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party operative who helped raise Obama in Hawaii.  Another speaker is Soviet KGB defector Konstantin Preobrazhensky, who will talk on the subject, "Communists and Muslims: The Hidden Hand of the KGB."  The all-day conference also includes former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl; Ryan Mauro, an expert on the Islamic Jihad; bloggers Trevor Loudon and Jeremy Segal; and filmmaker Joel Gilbert. Go to http://leninandsharia.com/ for information and details about attending our conference. There are still a few seats left.   Paul Kengor, will discuss his new book, THE COMMUNIST Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor. You can purchase copies of his new book at our event at a discount. Send me your thoughts at Kincaid@comcast.net For America's Survival, Cliff Kincaid, President