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Secret police spied on Kwasniewski
7th August 2009
© World Economic Forum
As a high-flying minister Kwasniewski aroused the suspicion of the security services
Aleksander Kwasniewski, the former Polish president, was monitored by the communist-era secret police despite holding a position as a junior minister in the last communist government, it has been revealed
In May 1989 the internal secret service, the SB, dedicated much time and effort into nosing into the life and background of Mr Kwasniewski, who was then an up-and-coming politician in the ranks of Poland’s one-party state, and held the position of Sports and Physical Education Minister.
In particular the SB paid attention to the possibility that the politician might have Jewish blood—a feature that, if true, might have earned official disapproval given the communist state’s occa ...
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