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East European Politics & Societies, Vol. 23, No. 1, 126-134 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0888325408327849
My Experience as a Paid Informer of the Polish Security Service
John J. Kulczycki
University of Illinois at Chicago
An agent of the Polish Security Service posing as a journalist contacted me in
January 1970 while I was doing research in Poznan, Poland, for a Ph.D.
dissertation as a graduate student of Columbia University. He commissioned an
autobiographical account of my life "on the road to a doctorate" for which I
was paid. But the actual goal was to recruit me as an informer concerning
professors at Columbia, particularly Zbigniew Brzezinski, and my fellow
students and their connections with the FBI and the CIA. When my suspicions
were finally aroused, on the advice of the American consulate in Poznan, I
returned the money and broke off contact. This ended my career as an informer,
while the agent pocketed the money. As a result of this contact, the
Intelligence Unit of the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs created a file on
me currently in the Institute of National Remembrance.
Key Words: Poland • communist security service • Institute of National
Remembrance • Zbigniew Brzezinski
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