A Secret Life (63 page)
Authors: Benjamin Weiser
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Germany, #World, #True Crime, #Espionage
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In the mid-1960s, the CIA merged the Soviet Russia (SR) and East Europe (EE) Divisions into the Soviet Bloc (SB) Division, and in the 1970s, into the SE (Soviet-Eastern Europe) Division. In this book I refer simply to the Soviet Division, as it was commonly called by officers.
7
The Southwestern Theater of Operations included Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and the southwestern part of the Soviet Union.
9
Lt. General Ion Pacepa, the former deputy chief of Nicolae Ceausescu’s foreign intelligence service, defected to the West in 1978.
13
The agency included phone numbers if Kuklinski felt that he needed to call the embassy in advance of his arrival. On any weekday, from 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., he could dial the embassy’s main number and request extension 220. At nighttime and on weekends, he should dial CIA officers at home.
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The CIA also provided Kuklinski with an updated list of vehicles being driven by its officers so that he could recognize them in moving-car deliveries. Warsaw Station said it had disposed of a blue 1978 Fiat Brava and a white 1979 Volkswagen camper, and Kuklinski should not expect to see them again. It said its officers still had a dark blue VW Dasher and white and green Fiats.
15
In Kuklinski’s reports on martial law, he used the Polish term
stan wojenny
to describe the crackdown, a phrase the CIA initially translated as “wartime readiness.” The CIA soon switched to “martial law.” I have used “martial law” from the start, as Kuklinski intended it.
stan wojenny
to describe the crackdown, a phrase the CIA initially translated as “wartime readiness.” The CIA soon switched to “martial law.” I have used “martial law” from the start, as Kuklinski intended it.
16
These documents included:
Note on the Subject of Martial Law with Consideration for State Security. Secret. Polish. 5 pages.
Resolution of the State Council Concerning the Introduction of a State of Martial Law. Secret. Polish. 2 pages.
Law on Amendment of the Constitution of the PPR. Secret. Polish. 1 page.
Decree on Protection of State Security and Public Order During the Existence of a State of Martial Law. Secret. Polish. 8 pages.
Decree on Supplying the Population During the Existence of a State of Martial Law. Secret. Polish. 5 pages.
Decree on Labor Relations During the Existence of a State of Martial Law. Secret. Polish. 5 pages.
Proposals Pertaining to the Procedure for Introducing a State of Martial Law with Consideration for State Security. Secret. Polish. 5 pages.
Initial Draft. Decree on the Administration of Justice During the Existence of a State of Martial Law. Secret. Polish. 8 pages.
Decree on Protection of State Security and Public Order During the Existence of a State of Martial Law. Secret. Polish. 8 pages.
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Kuklinski had new construction details about a second Project Albatross installation, the underground wartime Soviet command post that was to be built in a former hunting lodge in the forests near Opole. The two bunkers, to be built near an abandoned brickyard containing two small man-made lakes, would be able to withstand a force of fifteen kilograms per square centimeter. The usable area would be suspended inside a chamber on nitrogen-filled cylinders. “The chamber has a 3-meter-thick reinforced concrete foundation and protective shields against explosion and shock. The inside wall of the chamber is covered by steel plates and fortified by cushions made of glass wool.”
Copyright © 2004 by Benjamin Weiser.
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Selected lines [14] from “Report from the Besieged City” from
Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems
by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter. Copyright © 1985 by Zbigniew Herbert. .
Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems
by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter. Copyright © 1985 by Zbigniew Herbert. .
Ryszard Kuklinski speech on page 333: Polish Radio 1, Warsaw, in Polish 1034 gmt 29 Apr 98/BBC Monitoring.
All photographs courtesy of Ryszard Kuklinski except:
David Forden, the longtime CIA case officer
, courtesy of David Forden;
Forden and his two roommates, Peter Falk and Alan Goldfarb
, courtesy of Alan Goldfarb;
Kuklinski receives a blessing from Pope John Paul II
, courtesy of the Vatican (Photo “L’Osservatore Romano”)
David Forden, the longtime CIA case officer
, courtesy of David Forden;
Forden and his two roommates, Peter Falk and Alan Goldfarb
, courtesy of Alan Goldfarb;
Kuklinski receives a blessing from Pope John Paul II
, courtesy of the Vatican (Photo “L’Osservatore Romano”)
Set in Dante
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data
Weiser, Benjamin.
Weiser, Benjamin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-786-73890-8
1. Kuklinski, Ryszard Jerzy, 1930- 2. Spies―United States―Biography. 3. Poland―Armed Forces―
Officers―Biography. 4. Espionage, American―Poland. 5. United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
6. Cold War. I. Title.
Officers―Biography. 4. Espionage, American―Poland. 5. United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
6. Cold War. I. Title.
UB271.U52K.1273’0438’092―dc22
[B]
2003065930
2003065930
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