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Cold war spy Kuklinski movie premieres in Warsaw 05.02.2014 09:10 President Bronislaw Komorowski has heaped praise on a new movie about a Polish colonel who defected to the CIA in 1972, saying the hero of the film deserves to be honoured by Poland. “This film, thanks to wonderful acting, and a script that's rooted in real history, will always make a tremendous impression,” Komorowski said at the premiere of Jack Strong in Warsaw. “It's an extraordinary film about an extraordinary man,” he added. The movie follows the career of the late Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski (pseudonym Jack Strong), who handed thousands...

Appeals for posthumous promotion R. Kuklinski 07.08.2006 Polish war veterans want the late colonel Ryszard Kulinski, the man who had warned the US about plans to impose martial law in Poland back in 1981, to be posthumously promoted. This may happen already on August 15, when President Lech Kaczynski will present nominations to newly appointed generals. The president’s chief of staff Aleksander Szczyglo confirmed in a radio interview that many war veteran organizations are calling for the promotion of Ryszard Kuklinski. He added that such a promotion would be absolutely justified because “colonel Kuklinski deserves to be a general in...

Breaking News: FBI Searches Wooded Area for Hoffa By Cheryl Chodun Web produced by Seth Myers May 17, 2006 A group of FBI investigators is searching a wooded area in the vicinity of Milford and Wixom in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters’ leader Jimmy Hoffa. Investigators have cordoned off a section of woods where the bones of the long-missing union official may lie. Hoffa was last seen at the Mocas Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township in July 1975. Speculation regarding his whereabouts – or his body’s whereabouts – certainly comes and goes. Recently, a mob hitman named...

Museum of Polish CIA spy declared national hero 03.05.2006 A museum devoted to colonel Ryszard Kuklinski has been opened in Warsaw’s Old Town district. The ceremony has been hosted by Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who stressed the need to cherish the memory of such patriots as the late colonel Kuklinski. He belonged to that group of Poles who put moral obligations toward their nation above duties to the state, said minister Sikorski. Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski had been one of the top officers of the General Staff in the Polish armed forces during the 19 Seventies in communist Poland, during which...

Tommorrow Col Ryszard Kuklinski will be buried at The Warsaw Military Cemetary (Powazki) . Mrs Joanna Kuklinska, his wife, will participate in ceremony. It starts in Military Cathedral in Warsaw. Colonel Kuklinski’s Sacrifice A motto: Sleep, my soldier, in a dark grave; let Poland appear in your dreams.. Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski is no more with us. On Tuesday, 10 February 2004, he died at the Tampa Military Hospital, Florida following a stroke suffered on February 5. Born in Warsaw on 13 June 1930, in 1945 when the 2d World War ended he was only 15 years old. His father fought...

It is now thirty years since the end of the Vietnam War, but the 2004 Presidential campaign is fighting it all over again. That long after the Civil War, the bloody shirt had been put away, and politicians were arguing about other things, such as free silver. In 1896, the Democrats actually nominated a presidential candidate, William Jennings Bryan, who had been only four years old at the time of Appomattox, and whose activities during the war were not (as far as can be determined) subjected to the scrutiny of the other side's opposition researchers. Learning the lesson of Vietnam...

WASHINGTON Ryszard Kuklinski, a former Polish Army officer who secretly served as one of the CIA's most important spies behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, died Tuesday in his adopted American homeland, U.S. government officials said. He was 73. His death came at a military hospital in Tampa, Florida, following a stroke on Feb. 5, said Jozef Szaniawski, a longtime friend, The Associated Press reported. During some of the darkest days of the cold war, when Moscow was trying to defend its East European empire against growing grass-roots demands for freedom and democracy, Kuklinski covertly provided the United...

<p>A former Polish military officer who supplied the CIA with crucial intelligence in the last years of the Cold War has died.</p> <p>Polish Col. Ryszard Kuklinski died late Tuesday at a hospital in Tampa, Fla., from a stroke. He was 73.</p>

Polish Officer Who helped Pres Reagan dies A Polish army officer who spied on his country for the CIA during the communist era and later fled to the United States has died, the U.S. government said Wednesday. He was 73. CIA Director George Tenet hailed Kuklinski as "a true hero of the Cold War," and former President Lech Walesa said he had "achieved great things" despite being seen as a traitor by some of his countrymen. Kuklinski was born June 13, 1930, in Warsaw and served as a liaison officer between the Polish military and the Soviet Army from 1976-81....