1. BIOGRAPHICAL REPORT 2. JERZY MICHALOWSKI

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• Publication Date: April 2, 1953

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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SECURITY INFORMATION
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COUNTRY United Kingdom
REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT 1. Biographical Report
DATE DISTR.
2 April
1953
2. Jerzy Michalowski
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SOURCE:
1. The present Polish Ambassador in London, Jerzy Michalowski, is about 45 years
old, comes from Kiev, had a Jewish mother, and is a lawyer by profession. In
pre-war times he belonged to no political organization in Poland but, owing
to his long-standing leftist political views, he took part in editing a Polish
periodical "Gospodarka Narodowa" ("The National Economy"), expressing extreme
left opinions.
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2. Michalowski spent the time of World War II in a POW camp in Germany as a reserve
officer of the Polish Army and immediately after the cessation of hostilities,
he returned to Warsaw. His wife Maria, nee Tretter, was in London during the
war, living in Chelsea Cloister, S.W.3. She worked as a typist for T. Axciszewski
(for a time during the war he was Prime Minister of the Polish Government in
London), and was the mistress of a Jew, Tadeusz Lychowski, chief economic ad-
viser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw from the autumn of 1945 to
1948.
3. In the summer of 1945 Michalowski was sent by the Warsaw Government to the U.S.A.
as a member of the Polish delegation, under the leadership of Oskar Lange, to a
session of the U.N.O. On his way to the U.S.A., Michalowski stopped for a few
days in London, purchasing new clothes with Mr. Lychawskits clothing coupons and
help, took his wife Maria with him and left for New York. In the U.S.A. he became
acquainted with a Mrs. Zlotowska, an attractive Jewish woman of about 35 who even
before the war was an active member of the Polish Communist Party, and who during
the war was in the U.S.A. working as a journalist, becoming a member of the edi-
torial stafeof one of the biggest New York daily papers (probably the "Times").
She was then the wife of a Mr. Zlotowski, Jewish, a long-time Communist (in pre-
war times he was an official of the Comintern) who in 1945 was a member of the
Warsaw Polish Mission to the U.S.A. After his return to Poland, Michalowski di-
vorced his wife Maria and married Mrs. Zlotowska who also went to Poland, divorcing
her husband meantime. In 1947 Mrs. Maria Michalowska married Mr. Horowitz, a Jew --411.
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whom she knew from London, now a director of a department at the Ministry of
Internal Trade in Warsaw. Soon afterwards, Michalowski was appointed Polish
Ambassador to London in the following circumstances:
4. In 1945 Poland was really governed by a small commission called *Spostke (*The
Six"), consisting of 3 top Communist (PPR): Berman, Gomo.Lka and Minc, and 3 top
socialists (PPS): OsobkalEorawski, Szwalbe and Cyrankiewicz. At that time the
Polish ambassadorships in the U.S.A. and France were reserved, according to Party
plan, for Communist candidates (PPR); The Six" was called to fill the London
post; Cyrankiewicz did not come and was replaced by another top-ranking PPS member,
Czeslaw Bobrowski, than President of the Central Planning Office in Warsaw.
Kaczorswski was proposed as PPS (Socialist) candidate; he was brother-in-law of
Michalowski, married to the latter's elder sister Zofia; Kaczorowski later be-
came a Minister of Reconstruction. Then Gomolka remarked "What kind of diplomat
can be made of him: He is incapable of prevarication or subterfuge!" The PPS
representatives had no alternate candidate; then Bobrowski suggested Michalowski,
who was accepted. In 1946-47 there were rumors among some top Warsaw Communists
that Michalowski was a relative, through his mother, of Soviet Russian Minister
Wyszynski. In 1947 this was confirmed by Wyszynski himself when in Warsaw on his
way to Moscow from abroad. Proof of this story was the fact that the only private
home in Warsaw visited by Lebiediev, then Russian Ambassador in Warsaw, was that
of Mr. and Mrs. Kaczorowski.
5. Wichalpwski is a cool cynic, changing his political front only in order to rise
in his career. At present he must be considered a faithful servant of the Warsaw
regime.
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