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Re: Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski Museum

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Post by henryk » 08 Jul 2016, 20:04

http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/2608 ... rsaw[quote]
Exhibition devoted to Polish Cold War hero opens in Warsaw

Radio Poland External Service 08.07.2016 11:45

An exhibition dedicated to Colonel Ryszard Kukliński, who passed secret Warsaw Pact documents to the CIA during the Cold War, opened in the Polish capital on Friday.

Płk.Ryszard Kukliński, foto: polskieradio.pl

“Colonel Kukliński – A Polish Lonely Mission,” is the title of the exhibition, held at Warsaw’s Saski Garden. It is organized by the Colonel Kukliński Intelligence Museum in the capital. The launch falls on the opening day of the Warsaw summit of the North Atlantic Alliance, which was a deliberate choice on the museum’s part, the head of the institution, Filip Frąckowiak said. “Ryszard Kukliński was, in fact, Poland’s first Polish NATO officer, and so the opening of the exhibition on the first day of the Alliance’s summit is no coincidence,” Frąckowiak said.

The exhibition features 19 display panels documenting the life of Colonel Kukliński and his mission to thwart the Soviet Union’s top secret war plans for Europe in 1970-1981. These included blueprints for an attack of the Warsaw Pact countries, comprising the Soviet Union and other communist countries in Eastern Europe, against Western Europe. The exhibition features captions in both Polish and English.

Ryszard Kukliński began serving as a CIA agent in 1970, operating under the code name Jack Strong. A communist-era military court sentenced him to death, in absentia, in 1984. He was cleared of treason charges in 1997. Colonel Kukliński died on 11 February 2004 in Tampa, Florida. His ashes were returned to Poland and laid to rest at Warsaw’s Powązki Military Cemetery. (aba)
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Re: Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski Museum

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Post by henryk » 24 Oct 2016, 19:43

http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/27686 ... Posthumous promotion for Polish Cold War agent
Radio Poland External Service 24.10.2016 16:38

Polish President Andrzej Duda has posthumously awarded Colonel Ryszard Kukliński, who passed secret Warsaw Pact documents to the CIA during the Cold War, the rank of brigadier general.

Ryszard Kukliński. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka

The move came after a request earlier this year by Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz.

Kukliński passed top-secret Warsaw Pact documents to the CIA between 1971 and 1981, including plans for a military onslaught on the West and for the imposition of martial law in Poland to crush the Solidarity movement. Shortly after the declaration of martial law in December 1981, Kukliński was extracted from Poland by the CIA, along with his family.

In 1984, a military court in Warsaw sentenced him to death in absentia. The sentence was annulled after the fall of communism in Poland in 1989.
Kukliński died in 2004 at the age of 73 in the US state of Florida.(pk)
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