Polish secret service

misused, government says.

Struggling rulers say opposition figures spied on them in the 1990s.

By Adam Jasser

WARSAW * Poland's conservative government accused senior opposition politicians yesterday of using the secret services to spy on political opponents in the 1990s, saying the affair was "a crime against democracy".
The government made the accusation as the Law and Justice party of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski battled to restore its popularity, damaged by months of wrangling with its leftist coalition partners and the opposition. The opposition politicians denied the charge.
On Tuesday, Mr. Kaczynski, struggling to pass legislation through parliament such as the 2007 budget, had to accept the return to government of the leftist Self-Defence party of Andrzej Lepper four weeks after calling him a "rabble-rouser" and dismissing him.
With even the rightist media criticizing this revived marriage of convenience, Law and Justice counter-attacked and said it would expose what it called the evil role of intelligence services in the early days of Polish democracy.
"The secret services received and order to infiltrate rightist parties. We can talk about a crime against democracy," said Zbigniew Ziobro, the Justice Minister.
He said the government had found evidence the counter-intelligence unit of the State Protection Office (UOP) used agents to infiltrate and monitor rightist opposition parties, including one led by Mr. Kaczynski and his twin brother Lech, now Poland's President.
After years in the political wilderness, the Kaczynskis won power last year with pledges to weed out corruption in Poland and what they called "cliques" of former secret-service agents, ex-Communists and businessmen.
They accuse the main opposition party, the Civic Platform, which groups many centre-right politicians who governed Poland in the 1990s, of protecting such networks.
Last week, the Kaczynskis said former president Lech Walesa, the iconic pro-democracy campaigner and their former leader in the anti-Communist Solidarity movement, was involved with rogue elements in the secret services and former Communists. Mr. Walesa denied the accusations.
Mr. Ziobro pointed the finger at Konstanty Miodowicz, a former head of counter-intelligence, and former minister Jan Rokita, both prominent Civic Platform figures.
Both men dismissed the latest allegations, saying they were designed to distract Poles from the government's coalition troubles and its weakening position at home and abroad.
Reuters (NATIONAL POST, Thursday, October 19, 2006).

UOP szpiegowal "prawice" w Polsce. Czym wiecej dowiadujemy sie o roli polskiego kontrwywiadu w uciszaniu opozycji, tym latwiej moge sobie wytlumaczyc dlaczego po powrocie z emigracji w 1992 roku nic w Polsce mnie nie wychodzilo.

Nie moglem odzyskac naszego skonfiskowanego mieszkania przez komunistow, w ktorym mieszka milicjant. Nie moglem zostac burmistrzem Ustki. Nie moglem pracowac dla wojewody slupskiego, szlachcica Rembielinskiego h. Lubicz z PC. Rzad Suchockiej odwolal go, a ze mna nie odnowil kontraktu. Oboje znalezlismy sie na bruku. MSW nie chcialo mi dac koncesji na otworzenie firmy ochroniarskiej. Dlaczego w Polsce nic mi nie wychodzilo? Moze na te pytanie ma odpowiedz UOP?

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* Premier Security & Investigations Academy (http://www.psiacanada.com/)

* Canadian Security Academy Inc. (www.canadiansecurityinc.com)

* Iron Horse Corporation (www.ironhorsegroup.com)

* SECURITAS (www.securitas.ca)