[READ] A Secret Life: The Polish Colonel, His Covert Mission, And The Price He Paid To Save His Country: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country

A Secret Life: The Polish Colonel, His Covert Mission, And The Price He Paid To Save His Country: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country

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Author : Benjamin Weiser
Pages : 400 pages
Publisher : PublicAffairs 2005-05-04
Language : English

In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. Despite the extreme risk to himself and his family, he contacted the American Embassy in Bonn, and arranged a secret meeting. From the very start, he made clear that he deplored the Soviet domination of Poland, and believed his country was on the wrong side of the Cold War. Over the next nine years, Kuklinski rose quickly in the Polish defense ministry, acting as a liaison to Moscow, and helping to prepare for a "hot war" with the West. But he also lived a life of subterfuge--of dead drops, messages written in invisible ink, miniature cameras, and secret transmitters. In 1981, he gave the CIA the secret plans to crush Solidarity. Then, about to be discovered, he made a dangerous escape with his family to the West. He still lives in hiding in America. Kuklinski s story is a harrowing personal drama

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