War Games documentary premiered in Warsaw

- Reported by David M. Dastych, Warsaw Correspondent Warsaw (PMN)—A documentary film about Ryszard Kuklinski, who passed top secret Warsaw Pact documents to the CIA during the communist period, premiered in Warsaw in early December, 2008. The screening was held at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall under the honorary patronage of Polish Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Defense and Culture. The film, titled "War Games," took Dariusz Jablonski five years to make. It was shot in Poland, the United States and Russia and includes interviews with high-ranking CIA generals, former U.S. presidential security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Polish President Lech Walesa, Polish generals Jaruzelski and Kiszczak, commander of Warsaw Pact forces Soviet Marshal Kulikov, and Kuklinski's widow.

On December 10, "War Games" was screened at the CIA headquarters. President George W. Bush was invited to attend. Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski passed over 40,000 pages of mostly Soviet secret documents to the CIA between 1971 and 1981. They described, among other things, plans for the imposition of martial law in Poland. Shortly after the declaration of martial law in December 1981, Kuklinski was extracted from Poland by the CIA, along with his family. In 1984, a military court in Warsaw sentenced him to death. The sentence was annulled after the fall of communism. Kuklinski visited Poland in 1998. He died in Florida in 2004. ["A Secret Life," a book by Benjamin Weiser about the heroic exploits of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski is available from the Polonia Today Online Store by clicking on "Store" at left and then "Books In English." Fifty percent (50%) of proceeds of sales of this book from the Polonia Today Online Store goes to the Polish American Congress.]

David M. Dastych——Bio and Archives

David Dastych passed away Sept.11, 2010.

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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.

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