Polish spy may have defected to the Chinese

22nd December 2009

A Polish intelligence officer who provoked a massive manhunt after he went missing in April was probably working for the Chinese, says local media.


Stefan Zielonka left his Warsaw flat in mid-April, and since then nothing has been seen of the 52-year-old signals officer.

The problem for the secret services is that Zielonka has a mind packed with all kinds of sensitive information.



Along with having access to top-secret information, in particular he knows the code names, locations and contacts of Polish spies working overseas. If a foreign secret service could get its hands on all this, then much of the Poland’s intelligence framework could be compromised.


The newspaper ...