POLAND ACCUSES U.S. OF WIDE SUBVERSION EFFORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100890015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: January 29, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE. APPEARED
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Foreign Press s Videota es Purporting to
Show Espionage Activity;'U.S. Embassy Silent
By HARRY TRUhBQRN, Times Staf .Writer
One of the videotapes showed a4
.\VARSA.V=Polish: authorities;
,on - Thursday : accused the United;
States of conducting'a .worldwide
effort to subvert the country ;.i ---In an unprecedented'', meeting.
with the foreign press; Polish coup;
-terintelligence- officers cited ' what.,
;.they said was-a longlist of.Ct&.ef
forts'toreeruit. Poles as spiesre :
cent months-and in pasty
-A spokesman at the U.S. Embassy
here refused- ta-comment?.on the.
.charge,. saying... We. never:discussl
:="r
suchmattersinpubli
;;The reporters wereshown'vided-
tapes: said to support the charges of
U.S:. espionage involving .diplomats:
irr ..-Poland. The' Aapes are.; being,
'shown-on Poland's state=rug televf-:;
A"Amerieans Named s $:
* Among- those - Identified' by-'the:
Polish authorities as.Amencarr lit
telligence officers who have tried-t6.1
:iecnut Polish spies here and elJ-i =4?
,where'were Susan: McCloud,.:de-1
'scribed as an- attache at the- U.S:
Embassy in Switzerland;. Michael;
Anderson- and Peter Burke, said..to
-be second secretaries at theembas-.
sy here; and Leslie Sternberg once:
a;. third secretaryrat.'the embassy.
here = ` ' ,~ `:_~ -
r =The Poles identified otheisas Mid
cliael McBride, a. first secretary at j
`the'U.S. Embassy- in. Sweden; Mi'.`
.chael . Manx irr< West -Gprmany
;Robert. White;,, iziTl4leaico; Robert.
Malsz,'ii.,Japan;:Robert Stone,+,id
Hoopes; who served ini South: Viet
-nam, and. Edward James Smith, iris
yFx CoI Zbigmew Wislocki wliri: wa"s~
ence : ::::'` :::.:;4';'{/ }
;, 'U.S. intelligence=services'have~
? been instrumental in.the establish=:
went of anti-state groups in. Potand
uni
by..providing them with Comm
cations facilities;: =printing .equip
-ti. .~.I.. t.. ice..
went and-irwney.'I,
LOS `V? _ LES TIMES
29 January 1982
Dhhd Aub s es
:person identified as a member of e=1
::dissident Committee for Social Se1f
:Defense-.. (KOR)-,.:'pi'g a- doe-J,
_.ument to aman identified as`Anderyi
the"
f
i
`soa,;said'to be.onwthe staff o
KORwasawo p:~vithconsidera=
'ble influence on.the now-suspended
independent Solidarity trade union
.movement. According to the narra-
five, the passed-document ' dealt'
that.were to bepre.~
tionslaPoland
sented.toareviewconference of the
yThe' -United?'-States' and `~otherI
:,Western nations have charged that
the imposition of martial law is a vii:
= Anotherof-the, tapes dealing with
r_alleged?U.'spying:showed the ar=k
rest, of Sternberg?in -March; -1981..
Her .'car wasstopped by, security.:
,agents Iiere~`arid, :according: to the
inarrative?and.an account published
$in,.Trybuna t'du the official' news-:
;:paper of the Communist PartyCen
tral Committee,' it contained illegal
?literatureof the KPN or Confeder-
{ationfor'airlridepe-ndentPoland.:==:
' The::KPN,-"-`a -'nationalist; anti:;;
communist grop ; was suppressed;
,by, the, authoritiesbefore-the impo
sitionof martial law, Its-leader, Les_
zek Moczulskf, is being held for trial
bn 'charges of -taking part irr anti
istate activities
1-'yWislocki said that American dips
iomats had met with Moczulsld be-I
''fore his arrest.:_ k
.,:-:cSternberg'was accused of-sup
,plying the KPN~with materiaL'andd
;facilities for printing its literaturein{
'exchange forKPN's help in coinpil
,ingtthe'names and addresses of=.se~ +
icuritypersonnel?and politicaPlead-,
ers2Material~ allegedly confiscated?
.from her, car was on display at`-th '
press conference ';.'._: `~,?: `: A,?;
R.t :U.S "Embassy, spokesman ac:
kn6w1edged "''that. Sternberg, ,ha
beett"at - the embassy and. had 136e
reassigned. immediatel3k;'iafter . the
A to
1 --:-Another of the tapes showed then
,arrest:of Burke,who was charged.
with: passing espionage instructions
to a Pole. identified as Zemon Cele-.
i- Brat, noww.serving 2a years in prison:.
t,- Celeo at.=was said to have. been'
I into: the U.S.- espionage
service while serving in,the Polish
tcontingent' of the ;=International?
'Control - Commission - In ~ Vietnam;
duringthe Viet Warr r., :