STATEMENT BY GEORGE J. TENET

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL RYSZARD KUKLINSKI


"I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a
true hero of the Cold War to whom we all owe an everlasting debt of
gratitude. This passionate and courageous man helped keep the Cold War from
becoming hot, providing the CIA with precious information upon which so many
critical national security decisions rested. And he did so for the noblest of
reasons ? to advance the sacred causes of liberty and peace in his homeland
and throughout the world. It is in great measure due to the bravery and
sacrifice of Colonel Kuklinski that his own native Poland, and the other
once-captive nations of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union, are now free."

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