POLAND FREES A U.N. WORKER CONVICTED OF SPYING

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• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
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• Publication Date: February 21, 1984
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21 February 1984
Poland Frees a U.N. Worker Convicted of Spying
WARSAW, Feb. 20-A Polish United
Nations employee convicted of spying
was released today after serving more
than four years of a seven-year prison
term.
The release of the employee, Alicja
''Wesolowska, appeared to be a good-
will gesture by the Polish Government
during the visit of Secretary General
Javier P de CuMar, who has been
meeting with Poland's top leaders, In-
duding Prime Minister Wojciech Jaru-
zelski, todiscussthecause.
"I am just happy to be with my par-
ents at last," Miss Wesolowska said in
a telephone interview tonight. "1 think
they have suffered more than I during
this ordeal."
Miss Wesolowska said she had been
released at 10:30 A.M. from a prison in
western Poland. She said she took her
paresis by surprise when she arrived
is her hometown of Tonm in north cen-
tral Poland early this evening.
Arrest6d in August im
Miss Wesolowaka* 39 years old, was
DC in August 1Yiy._ when she i'
earlier today, the Secretary General
did. not say that she had been freed,
only that he had received "a very en-
couraging response" from Polish offi-
cials during talks on the matter.
This was Mr. Peres deCullar's first
stop on a.swing through Eastern 'Eu-
rope. On Tuesday he is to travel to
Czechoslovakia and is also scheduled to
visit Hungary and Bulgaria.
Miss Wesolowska said she received a
telephone call from the Secretary Gen- .
seven for for an
Sower. At trme o a
Warsaw said rivaTt t she
tortheCentra-riteuirence
been lodeed aeainst her was that of eiy-
T ties at her New York Fast Side
apartment so that - i e events emild
rL~Te
mingle wi h hird.worfr A'le
T
Her can became a.cause cbre fors
other United Nations employees who
said that the charges were trumped up.
and proved the United Nations' i~
ity to protect employees who have
fallen into disfavor back borne. At the.
time of her arrest, she was travelangj
United Nations papers as will as her
Polishpessport..
In a recent interview Miss Wesolow-
ska's father said she had gone to Flor-,
ida in the early 1910's to visit a pen pal'!
and decided to stay. Eventually, hel
said, her pan pal's brother helped berg
get a job as a tour;guide at the United
Nations, where she later became a sea
rotar
:
y
During her years at the United Na-
tions she .was shunned by other Polish
Secretariat workers, as well as by Pol-
ish diplomatsbecause she was not .'one
of them,.. according to herlatber..- -
Secretary General's Flrst Stop
Miss ? Wesolowska's release came
i after years of negotiations by United
- Nations officials to have her freed, and ?
is believed to be largely the work of Mr.
P6= de Cuellar. At a news-confereaoe
funum- 9M - - - Polish authorities would allow her to -
2=1 In 141EM 1 returntoper United Nations post. Since.
June 1980 sbe has been on special leave
at trial in "It
"For the moment, everybody l just
happy that I am out" she said. "The
funne is not definite.". - 11 . 11
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