Today, on April 15, 2009, one of the best Polish daily papers RZECZPOSPOLITA (The Republic) published a story confirming that the CIA, in a secret deal with the Polish Government and Intelligence, operated a clandestine site near the airfield of SZYMANY in North-Eastern Poland where terrorist suspects were brought to and probably interrogated.
For several years, the Polish authorities strongly denied any facts about that deal with the CIA. In March 2007, LARISA ALEXANDROVNA and DAVID DASTYCH published a large and well documented report about a CIA "black site" in Poland
Soviet-era compound in northern Poland was site of secret CIA interrogation, detentions
by Larisa Alexandrovna and David Dastych
This publication drew much attention all over the world but not in the main-stream-media. The Polish Government strongly denied any participation of Poland in the CIA "renditions program" and former PRIME MINISTER OF POLAND, Mr. Leszek Miller, openly lied about that to the Polish and international media. When asked by the editors of a very popular political program of TVN (a private television network), TERAZ MY (And Now It's Our Turn") to confront one of the authors of the article, Mr. David Dastych, Mr. L. Miller promptly retreated, calling the author "a fairy tale teller."
Now the story has been fully confirmed. So it is!
Best regards
DAVID DASTYCH
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David was a former Polish intelligence operative, who served in the 1960s-1980s and was a double agent for the CIA from 1973 until his arrest in 1987 by then-communist Poland on charges of espionage. Dastych was released from prison in 1990 after the fall of communism and in the years since has voluntarily helped Western intelligence services with tracking the nuclear proliferation black market in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. After a serious injury in 1994 confined him to a wheelchair, Dastych began a second career as an investigative journalist covering terrorism, intelligence and organized crime.
