BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF MICHAL GOLENIEWSKI

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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2022
• Case Number: F-2020-00942
• Publication Date: February 9, 1965

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9 February 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Office of Legislative Counsel
ATTENTION � � Mr. George Lee Cary, Jr.
SUBJECT � ^ Biographic Sketch of Michal GOLENIEWSKI
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1. The following information is submitted in response
to your request. There is no objection to your passing it
to Congressional contacts under suitable security caveats.
Of a necessity, the material has all come from GOLENIEWSKI
himself, and we cannot vouch for the absolute accuracy of
some of the details contained therein. We have little doubt,
however, of his statements concerning the general outlines
of his career in the Polish Intelligence Service.
2; GOLENIEWSKI began his intelligence career as an
agent of the Soviet counterintelligence apparat SMERSH in
German-occupied Poland during World War II. After the war,
the Soviets sponsored GOLENIEWSKI's entry into the Polish
security services and although his previous Soviet agent
status was concealed, Soviet support undoubtedly accounts for
his relatively rapid rise. In 1955 at Soviet request he as-
sumed a senior post in the Polish Military Counterintelligence
Service (GZI). After the Polish "October Revolution" of 1956,
GOLENIEWSKI was squeezed out of his position in the GZI, but,
owing largely to Soviet intercession, returned to the UB and
acted, in effect, as a clandestine Soviet penetration of the
Polish service until 1960. About the middle of 1960, however,
overt Soviet liaison with the Poles improved to the point where
a clandestine penetration was not only unnecessary but could
have proved embarrassing if inadvertently disclosed. GOLENIEWSKI
was therefore deactivated as a clandestine penetration, all
quite amicably, subject to reactivation should the situation
change to make such a penetration once more desireable.
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3. It was during his period of clandestine service to
the Soviets (April 1958) that GOLENIEWSKI made contact with
us, a move he says he had planned a long before as his GZI
days. He claims to have been motivated by disillusionment
with the Soviets growing out of a deeper knowledge of their
activities and intentions gained while they sponsored him in
the GZI, and by Soviet persecution of his first wife. Our
clandestine association with GOLENIEWSKI lasted until December
1960, when, in a highly nervous state and fearing for his life,
he fled to West Berlin,
4. The attached chronology goes into more det *1 than
the above outline.
ronson 'l'weecty
Chief
Eastern Europe Division
Attachment:
Chronology of Michal GOLENIEWSKI
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