U.S. IS BEHIND SPYING, POLES ALLEGEDLY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100870004-3
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 29, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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was arrested last March in a?car loaded ":3 In Washington, the State Department The films, which are being shown as a
with illegal brochures, leaflets and other called the Polish charges ridiculous. series on Polish television, showed Mr. An-
documents published by a Polish anti- - .."-`-'The persons named appear to have derson in the company, of a prominent
.Communist organization, the Confedera-,;;been' selected at' random from among KOR member, Zbigniew Romaszewski,
tion of Independent Poland (KPN),.and by 'members of the U.S. Foreign Service serv- and Mr. Burke under arrest after picking
the dissident organization KOR. ing in posts all around the world, and in at - up a message from in- a hollow stone.-
,-
A television film screened for reporters
showed police stopping the car and Polish,
officials interrogating Miss Sternberg. A
commentary accompanying the film said
she left the country the next day.
Other U.S. diplomats the officials iden-
tified as spies were Peter Burke, a second
ligence activities. secretary ousted in 1979, and Michael An-
It said three were. U.S. diplomats and."derson, also a second secretary; who was,
eight were agents of,; the Central Intelli- *seized_in 1980.
gence Agency. -The films also named Alicja Wesolow-
ti One of the Americans was a 30-year-old ska a Pole sentenced to prison in 1980 al-
woman, identified as Leslie Sternberg, legedly for spying:for the CIA while work-
third secretary in the embassy's consular ing? for the United Nations:.. She. was not
department. stationed in Poland, but r was '.arrested
THE BALTIMORE SUN
29 January 1982
is behind.
Warsaw-Poland's martial law govern-
ment charged yesterday that the United
States was behind an "enormous" increase
in spying in Poland and listed 10 Ameri-
cans and a Pole allegedly involved in intel-
least one case, a post that does not even
exist," spokesman Rush Taylor said.
"Nonetheless, it is the policy of the U.S.
government not to respond to this kind of
ridiculous allegation."
Col. Zbigniew Wislocki of the Polish
counterintelligence service said the cases
were just a few examples of extensive U.S. }
espionage in Poland: , -.
"During the last two or three years, an
enormous increase of activity of American
intelligence has occurred, including classic
intelligence acts," such as attempts to re-
cruit Polish citifens, he said. He also said
most recruitment attempts were being re-
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