Thursday, February 6, 2014

New Polish movie casts Cold War spy as hero

This Feb. 6, 2014 photo shows the poster for a new Polish movie about a Cold War spy Ryszard Kuklinski that opens in Poland on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 and later this month in Britain and Ireland, in Warsaw, Poland. The riveting movie “Jack Stong,” named after Kuklinski’s CIA codename, tells how from behind the Iron Curtain, he passed some 35,000 pages of Warsaw Pact secrets to the CIA, including the communist government's plan to impose martial law in 1981 and launch a brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy Solidarity movement. He was spirited out of Poland with his wife and two sons shortly before the Dec. 13, 1981 military crackdown, and the family lived in hiding in the U.S., where both his sons died in accidents. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) WARSAW, Poland (AP) — For many Poles, Col. Ryszard Kuklinski was a traitor for passing secrets to the Americans during the Cold War — and even Solidarity leader Lech Walesa refused to honor him after he became president. A new Polish movie casts Kuklinski in a different light, as a hero who acted on conscience and helped avert bloodshed.








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