POLES IDENTIFY 9 AS AGENTS OF C.I.A.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505290033-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: January 29, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED
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PODS IDENTIFYD
AS AGENTS OF C.I.A.
? Police Film Purports to Show
3 American Spies at World -
6 Others Are Cited
By JOHN DARNTON-:x~i.
WARSAW, Jan 28 The Polish Gov-
ernment accused ? the United States
today of espionage. in Poland and said
the Central Intelligence ' Agency had
played a significant role in creating
anti-Government opposition.
At a news conference, three colonels.
presented what they said was. evidence
.of spying. They showed film clips.of
three diplomats once posted here.and
named six others stationed outside Po-
land who theysaidwereC.IA. agents.:.
The film was part of a five. part series
being shown on television. Titled "Who
is Who," it uses Interior Ministry- film
purporting to show spies at work.
Poles said the television series was
more anti-American than anything that
United States Government-sponsored
television program', ','Let Poland Be Po=
.The accusation s also' appeared.'?ln
tended to cast a further chill on contacts
between Poles and. Westerners, espe-
cially diplomats, and: to undercut the
-Solidarity trade union and dissident.
groups by'suggesting that they.were.
One of the officers at the news confer-
ence, Col. Zbigaiew'W3locki of the:In=
tenor . Ministry'st-rcaraterinteiligiince
unit, said in response.to a question that
actions of _ Solidarity "aimed.; at ;the
cant extent the result of activities the
United States diplomats here derided
the accusations in private and said pub-
lic comment on: specific- charges-must
come from the State Department
; Others at the news conference, which
was held at the Government press cen-
ter, were Col. Hipolit Starszak, head of
the Interior Ministry's investigation bu-
reau, and Coin Boleslaw Klis, who is with
the Militaryy.Prosecutor's Offices;.
NEW YORK TIMES
29 JANUARY 1982
Espionage Devices Under Glass ? -
To one side were two glass-enclosed
booths containing what was labeled as
American spy devices, including tran-
sistor radios, cameras, code paper that
was said t'o vanish on contact with
water, and pellets of disappearing ink
hidden in the handle of a shaving brush.
Reporters examined the objects before
the conference opened, as a song sung
byTom Jones was piped into the room.
The first film was about Leslie Stern-
identified as a third secretary in
the- consular: division- of the United
called "X
sideana
szewski,
second
ical sec '
Romasze
.ments to
.not being
. did not wantto create a "spymania.'
!,We are not planning to limit contacts
The film, evidently taken from a mov-
ing van, shows a Fiat car being stopped
"for a routine road check,'; on March 13,
1981. Inside the trunk, according to the
narration;.were found printing ink, bra
chures and leaflets from the Confedera.
tion for an Independent Poland; a dissi-
dent group. Miss Sternberg Is shown
standing grim-faced beside the car and
later at a police station.
"It was learned that she speaks Pol-
ish, but not well. enough to answer cer-!
tain questions,"the narration says, add-
ing that her embassy job was a cover for
and "an important spy." The film shows
his identity papers, his'local residence
stone. Then Mr. Burke is brought to po-
lice headquarters-where, according to..
thenarratlon, "bekeeps repeating 'I amt
an Amer clan diplomat."
Inside the stone, which is opened on
camera,.was said to be information on
Poland's air defense syst?m. A close-up
"This isthenran who worked for.;the
'C.I.A_andslippedoa astone in Poland,
thenarrator says .- -,:' ti-
A third segment was about an uniden-
tifled Pole, the man: who was said to
have lef t the stone. He describes on film
[how he was recruited by the Americans
lwhile a member. of the Polish Control
Commission in South Vietnam. .
The fourth concerned Alicja Wesolow-
ska, a Polish citizen who worked for the
United Nations and was arrested while
on - a visit here in August 1979, --was.
charged with espionage and is now sere,
ing a seven-year sentence. Her case has
become an international cause cklebre. .
The film was apparently made during
hee i n t e r r o g a t r o n ,. Over a- scratchy.
soundtrack; seeis seen saying that she
had provided;'blts and pieces"'of Infor-'
`rnatioa;cen diplQnzatsat ..United Na-
of Poles with-Western embassies." he
said, "but frequently official contacts.
later change intosomething else.-!4,.
:He acknowledged-that Soviet-bloc na-~
ing anyone. We must-defend ourselves
- asasmall Euro
pean country."
Colonel Wislocki gave the names and
'positions of .six people he. said were,
. C.I:A. agents attached to United States
embassies is other foreign ~ capitals. 1
Many of them, Colonel Wislocki said,
tried to recruit Poles abroad,to work for
that'TA`,_,:, -._ . ._ ..
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