Visit of Wałęsa at an interview school – Dorota Kania

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Four months after the “night shift” in 1992, the president of Poland Lech Wałęsa appeared at an interview school in The old man's shackles on Mazury.
It was a centre where PRL intelligence staff were educated — and later the 3rd Polish Republic.

Today it functions as Intelligence Agency Training Center.
During the time of the People's Poland, it was an object of the Department of the I MMA

The president didn't come alone. They accompanied him:

  • Mieczysław Wachowski
  • Minister of the Interior Andrzej Milczanowski
  • President's spokesperson Andrzej Dricimski
  • Head of the Office for State Protection Jerzy Nejny

At 1 point, Wałęsa made a statement, which he inactive returns in the context of his biography:

"Big characters have different very complicated passages of their résumés, and the most crucial is this goal that is achieved".

The problem was, When this visit came.

Four months after the overthrow of the Olszewski government

Wałęsa arrived at the intelligence school only 4 months after the alleged "night shift", which means overthrow of the government of Jan Olszewski.

It was the Olszewski government that set up the peculiar Mirroring squad of the Ministry of Interior led by the Minister of Interior Antoni Macierewicz, which, in accordance with the resolution of the Sejm, was obliged to check the most crucial persons in the country.

Then came the news:

Lech Wałęsa is listed in the MSW archives as a secret associate of the SB with the pseudonym “Bolek”.

On 29 May 1992, the president asked the Minister of the Interior, Antoni Macierewicz, to release his briefcase.

The Bolka file and the mysterious disappearance of documents

After the overthrow of the government of Jan Olszewski, president Wałęsa from the Minister of the Interior Andrzej Milczanowski received the SB documentation collected on it.
The briefcase was returned on 22 September 1992.

It was decompleted. The most crucial papers are gone. indicating cooperation.

What is important, however, is that any of the materials survived outside the main file.

In the UOP Delegation in Gdańsk respective twelve TW “Bolek” notes were found.
They afraid employees of the W-4 Department and members of the Gdańsk Shipyard strike committee of December 1970.

These environments were straight related to the life communicative of Wałęsa.

The authenticity of the papers raised no uncertainty about the management of the UOP.

The President's phone

After the fall of the government on the night of 4 to 5 June 1992, the president's men were preparing to take over the MMA.

The fresh minister was to be Andrzej Milczanowski and the head of the UOP Jerzy Koniecny.

Before taking office, the president called UOP chief Piotr Naimski:

"Do not decision any papers and wait".

Naimski Commission

Naimski set up a six-member committee that prepared an inventory of the presidential act.
Among them were Adam Taracha and Konstanty Miodowicz.

A paper was created:

"Protocol from the review of archival files concerning Lech Wałęsa's agential activities from 1970 to 1976"

He mentioned all the materials in the Ministry of abroad Affairs until 4 June 1992, as Slawomir Cenckiewicz and Piotr Gontarczy wrote in the book “SB a Lech Wałęsa. origin for Biography".

UOP acquisition night

At night with 5 for 6 June A fresh squad entered the UOP building in 1992.

Silentianowski and essential first checked the armored money of Antoni Macierewicz.
They didn't find Wałęsa's papers there.

They then went to Piotr Naimski's office and took over all the files on Lech Walesa.

Among them were:

  • an recognition card indicating cooperation until 1976.
  • printout from SB computer database
  • questionnaire for internation
  • copies of the manuscripts ‘Bolka’
  • reports from Gdansk

Security and cleaning

After entering a fresh team:

  • sealed rooms of the Department of Studies
  • On the corridors were sentries of Nadwiślański Units
  • co-workers Antoni Macerewicz isolated

Colonel Adam Dębiek, a erstwhile SB officer, led the proceedings.

Associates of Antoni Macierewicz refused to give explanations and demanded an inventory of the files in the presence of the Sejm.

They were immediately released.

Missing registration card

Historians Sławomir Cenckiewicz and Piotr Gontarczyk wrote in 2008 in “Rzeczpospolita”:

"A card with numbers from 12514 to 12565 was pulled from the registration log of the erstwhile ‘C’ Division of KW MO Gdańsk. On the above page, under number 12535 he was recorded as TW ‘Bolek’ Lech Wałęsa’.

After the events described above, there was a visit to the intelligence school. As head of the armed forces, the president had the formal right to visit the service centres.
But the crucial thing was, Who worked there? – who trained the intelligence staff of the 3rd Republic of Poland.

In the early 1990s, UOP and intelligence school were SB officers, including Department I MMA officers. The story that PRL's interview was not part of the safety camera was not actually covered.

Every Department I officer:

  • held an SB card
  • took an oath of allegiance to the Polish People's Republic and an alliance with the USSR
  • combating opposition

The structures of the UOP included safety Service officers, staff of the Department of I MMA PRL – among others:

Visit with a political shadow

Therefore, Lech Wałęsa's visit to Kiejkuty was more than a regular control of the president over the services.

She did:

  • After mirrors
  • after taking over the file
  • After the papers disappeared
  • in the environment of erstwhile SB officers

And it was then that words about “complicated résumés”.

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