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

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
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• Publication Date: January 29, 1982
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POLES !DENT!FY9
AS AGENTS OF C.I.A.
-Police Film Purports to Show
3 American Spies at Work.
._6 Others Are Cited .?
By JOHN DARNTON -.v: a*
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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 they said were C.I.A. agents:
The film was part of a five-part series
being shown on television. Titled "Who
Is Who," it uses Interior Ministry film
purportingto show spies at work.
Poles said the television series was
more anti-American than anything that
they had seen since theheight of the cold
-war. It was regarded as a retort to the
United States Government-sponsored
television program., '!Let Poland Be Po,
land," which is to beatredonSunday : t
Chill Is Cast Over Contacts.
The accusations` also appeared In-
tended to cast a further chill on contacts
between Poles and Westerners, espe.
cially diplomats, and. to undercut they
Solidarity trade union and dissident;
groups by' suggesting that they were.
linked with foreign subversion.'
One of the officers at the news confer=
ence, Col. Zbigeiew-Wlslockiof the .. 11 11'
tenor Ministry'ss-rcannterintelligence
unit, said in response.to aquestion that
actions of Solidarity' "aimed, at the
breaking of the state were to, a signiff
cant extent the result of activities bythe
U.S. secret services."
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 Col. Boleslaw Klis, who is with'
the Military Prosecutor's Office;
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 to 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* piped into the room.
The first film was about Leslie Stern-
berg. Identified as.a third secretary in
the- consular division- of the United:
States Embassy here from 1979 to 1981;
The film, evidently taken from a mov-
ing van, shows a Fiat carbeing stopped
"for a routine road check." on March 13.
1981. Inside the trunk. according to the
narration, were found printing ink, bro-
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 ata police station.
called "X'
side an a
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second sec
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ments to
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Colonel is __..... u cne iuvernmenti
-did not want to create a "spy mania."
.,We are not planning to limit contacts!
of Poles with. Western embassies," hei
said, "but frequently official contacts,
later change intosomething else.- 4 He acknowledgedthat Soviet-bloc na-
tions might also be using spies in the
West, but said: ','Poland is not threaten-
ing anyone. We must defend ourselves
'Colonel Wislocki gave the names and
positions of -sit people he. said were
C.r.A_ agents attached to United States
embassies in other foreign -capitals. t
Many of them, Colonel Wislocki said,
tried to recruit Poles abroad to work for
Embassy Job Is Called Cover F-'
The camera zeroes in on her Am eri.
can passport.: ,_.
"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
collecting information, such as- th e
home addresses of police officials.-.
The second episode concerned Peter
Burke, described as a second secretary
in the embassy's political section in 1979
and "an important spy." The film shows
his identity papers, his'local residence
and then a park where 4 stone had been
placed under a lamppost. A car is seen
stopping nearby, a. man picking iip the,
stone- Then Mr. Burke is brought to po-lice headquarters,where, according to
the narration, "hekeeps repeating'I am
an Amercian diplomat."
:Inside the stone, which is opened on
camera,.was said to be information on
Poland's air defense syst?m. A close-up
of Mr. Burke's face follows.
"This is the-man who worked for the"
C.I.A..and slipped ono a stone in Poland,:'
Wenarratorsays j:;.~
PoleTells of Vietnam Incident
A third segment was about an uniden-
`tified Pole, the man who was said to
have left the stone. He describes on film
how he was recruited by the Americans
while a member, of the Polish Control
CommissioninSouthVietnam.-
The fourth concerned Alicja Wesolow.
I 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 serv-?
ing a seven-year sentence. Her case has
become an international cause cklebre.
{ The fila:was'apparently made during:
hes-iinterrogation., Over a, -scratchy,
-soundtrack she .-is seen saying that she
had provided"bits and pieces"'of infor
anatioa c~ diplomats at. the -United Na-
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