CIA

Celebrities back campaign to restore yacht of Cold War spy Ryszard Kukliński who was forced to abandon it after defecting to the West

Although much of its history remains shrouded in rumour, it is known that Kukliński conducted some of his espionage activities on the yacht. Fundacja Jack Strong /Facebook

Celebrities including songstress Natalia Przybysz, sailing legend Roman Paszke, explorer Marek Kamiński and celebrated author Professor Norman Davies have been taken on to help raise the profile of the costly restoration project. 

Polish president meets head of CIA

Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, on Monday held talks with William Burns, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the President's Office has reported.

The spy left out in the cold: Gripping new book tells extraordinary tale of Poland’s most devastating Cold War spy

The highest-ranking intelligence officer in communist Poland to ever flee the country, Michał Goleniewski exposed more than 1,600 Soviet bloc intelligence officers, and agent handlers, including notorious MI6 mole George Blake, to his handlers in the West. Now, through exclusive access to declassified top secret documents, the story of his incredible life has finally been told in a new book published this week.

Pretty pottery town gets cultural boost after being added to European Route of Ceramics

The medieval town of Bolesławiec in Lower Silesia now joins a prestigious list of culture which includes Prinsenhof Museum of Delft in the Netherlands, the Municipality of Faenza in Italy, known for majolica earthenware, and the ceramic producing region of Gmunden in Austria.

CIA doc says secret Nazi tunnel complex lies buried in southern Poland

The whereabouts of the complex remains a mystery, but the hunt is on to find it.

Poland receives declassified CIA documents on fall of communism

Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński, during a visit to the United States, was given declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) materials on the fall of communism in Central European countries.

From Bolesławiec with love: Polish pottery firm designs CIA crockery

The cooperative said it couldn’t disclose how many sets the CIA had ordered but confirmed that the order had been completed and shipped ‘a few months ago’.

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