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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505130005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 28, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Press Conference: STATION C-SPAN
Ambassador Zdzislaw Rurarz
December 28, 1982 8:00 P.M. CITY Washington, DC
WILLIAM GILL: If any of you didn't get the press
release or the Ambassador's ttatement, we have some, I believe,
both at the door and up here. So you can come up and get it.
I am William Gill, a friend of the Ambassador's. And on
Saturday morning I picked up the Washington Post and I found a
two-paragraph notice on the run-over page for the story on Poland
that morning that ex-Ambassador Rurarz, now in the U.S., receives
death sentence in absentia. I immediately thought that something
ought to be done to at least write a little insurance policy,
perhaps, on the, Ambassador's life. And so I called him, and we
got our friends at the Council for the Defense of Freedom, and
they agreed to cooperate with us in this press conference this
morning.
The Ambassador has a statement to make, and then it will
be open to questions.
AMBASSADOR ZDZISLAW RURARZ: Ladies and gentlemen,'Mr..,
Gill. On December 17, 1982, the military tribunal in Warsaw l
passed on me a death sentence, in absentia for allegedly \
committing high treason. The real treason, of course, is the
treason that General Jaruzelski and his junta committed against
Poland and our people when they proclaimed martial law a year ago
and proceeded to suppress the free trade union movement
Solidarity.
Actually, what Jaruzelski's junta did was to declare war
against the Polish people, a war that the world knows was
instigated by the Soviet Union. At the time this war was
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