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As a senior Polish military staff officer, Kuklinski passed some 35, top-secret Warsaw Pact documents to the CIA between 19before.!
Ryszard Kukliński
Polish colonel and spy (1930–2004)
Not to be confused with American murderer Richard Kuklinski.
Ryszard Jerzy Kukliński (June 13, 1930 – February 11, 2004) was a Polish Army colonel and Cold War spy for NATO.
Ryszard Kuklinski, a senior officer on the Polish general staff and a CIA agent, to expose Soviet plans to invade Poland.
He was posthumously promoted to brigadier general by Polish President Andrzej Duda.[1]
Between 1972 and 1981 Kukliński passed top-secret Soviet documents to the CIA, including Soviet plans for the invasion of Western Europe.[2]
Former United States National Security AdvisorZbigniew Brzeziński described him as "the first Polish officer in NATO."[3]
Biography
Kukliński was born in Warsaw to a working-class family with strong Catholic and socialist traditions.
During World War II, his father became a member of the Polish resistance movement; he was captured by the Gestapo, and subsequently died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After the war, Kukliński began a successful career in the Polish Peopl