SECRET TRIAL OF MEMBERS OF AN UNDERGROUND ORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006700790007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794. the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited by law.
S-S-C-R-197T
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Secret Trial of Members of an
Underground Organization
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1. A number of persons arrested in July 1954 as members of an
underground organization have been brought to trial. Sentences
ranged up to 15 years in prison f or two defendants, with
lighter terms for the remainder. These per sons were arrested
during a swearing-in ceremony of a clandestine g ovear m+nent which
was taking place secretly in the Aawel Church in Krakow. They
had been betrayed by one of the organization who allegedly was
not satisfied with the post he was to be given by this govermeiii t.
2. At the secret trial the accused were defended by three lawyers
of Lawyers' Cooperative No. 25 in Warsaw,aaong whose members are
Kant (fun), Mowwakosnki (fnu), and Nowogrodski (fau). The
military prosecution tried to prove that the United States
actually stands behind the activities of this group. The
defendants claimed that they were not assisted by any foreign
goverment or emigre organization. They intended only to prepare
a goverment for Poland for the moment the present regime would
collapse, and they had no intentions of assisting anyone in orer-
throwing the present regime a They stressed the fact tha t they
had no faith in the emigre organizations which have no under-
standing for the new spirit in Poland.
3. The def n se built its case on the insane behavior of the
defendants and their simple-mindedness, but the prosecution
demanded severe punishment on grounds that this organization
allegedly already had thousands of adherents, mainly ci tizens
of Krakow.
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