David M. Dastych
David Dastych passed away Sept.11, 2010. See:David Dastych Dead at 69
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.
Other articles by David Dastych
Most Recent Articles by David M. Dastych:
Who did it and why?
September 30, 2008
Polish engineer kidnapped in Pakistan
The Giant and the Dwarfs
June 23, 2008
Long hands of the Communist security:
Canadian & U.S. Investors Mistreated in Poland
June 14, 2008
Investment boom but…
Irena Sendler: Compassion and Courage
May 26, 2008
She saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust
A “Dismal Joke” or an Act of Grace?
May 6, 2008
Mehmet Ali Agca wants to live in Poland
A Moscow Contract on Pope John Paul II
April 29, 2008
Was Gorbachev really involved?
New documents revealed
Putin Denied, Kabaeva Denied, Tabloid Apologized, Lyudmila…?
April 20, 2008
Just Gossip...
Tsar Putin to Marry a Gym Champion
April 16, 2008
ALINA KABAEVA SUPERSTAR
'He's a poet, not the lord of war', says wife of gunrunner Viktor Bout
Did the FSB Betray Victor Bout?
March 20, 2008
Following the trail of the “Merchant of Death”
Following the trail of the “Merchant of Death”
March 18, 2008
Victor Bout, The Romanian Connection
‘Merchant of Death’ detained in Thailand
March 14, 2008
The bad and good about Victor Bout:
Jaruzelski was no Pinochet
March 3, 2008
Why is he in the docks?
Paul Joyal’s Injuries Saved Other Lives
February 26, 2008
The last Russian attack on American soil?
Russians Suspected in Shooting of Kremlin Critic Near D.C.
February 24, 2008
Silencing Russia's critics
THE END OF ‘BRAINY DON’? We’ll see
January 30, 2008
Semyon Mogilevich arrested in Moscow
Poland’s Black Wednesday
January 25, 2008
20 Air Force officers killed in a CASA C-295M transporter crash
Trading with the Enemy
January 8, 2008
‘Narco-renditions’ in Afghanistan
Pakistan—After the Shut Down of GEO TV
November 18, 2007
Hamid Mir
Lech Walesa’s New Heart
November 8, 2007
Exclusive: Solidarity Free Trade Union leader, Lech Walesa
Musharraf’s Step Back
November 6, 2007
Exclusive: Martial law in Pakistan
DEMOCRACY, NOT “TWINS-CRACY”
October 23, 2007
Poles went to the polls to change politics
Poles Help Iraqis, Face Death
October 8, 2007
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