| The famous Polish Army officer who served as one of the C.I.A.’s most important spies during the cold war, died on February 10, 2004. He was 73. "Colonel Kukliński covertly provided the United States with critical information that may have staved off a Soviet invasion of Poland” - "The New York Times” wrote. He also gave the Central Inteligence Agency advance warning of communist authorities’s plans to impose martial law in order to crack down on Solidarity movement in 1981. The commemoration ceremony will be hold at the Polish Embassy on March 31, 2004. The next issue of "The Polish Embassy Post” will be dedicated to col. Ryszard Kukliński. |
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Tadeusz Walendowski passed away on February 27, 2004
at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. Two weeks later, on March 11 his wife Anna Erdman died.
Her readiness to offer help to those in need earned Dr. Anna Erdman gratitude of all of
the Polish-American community in Washington, DC.
During the 1970's Tadeusz Walendowski worked as an independent filmmaker and journalist in Poland. He was an active member of the Polish democratic opposition movement. Among other things, he was one of the editors of independent weekly journal Puls. Along with his wife, Anna Erdman, he created Salon Walendowskich at their apartment in Warsaw where Polish dissidents held meetings. Mr. Walendowski was forced by the communist government to leave his homeland in 1979. He moved to the USA with his family where he worked at the Voice of America as a Polish correspondent for many years. While living in the United States, he remained highly involved in activities related to Poland and the Polish-American community. Among others, he was one of the editors of a journal called Poland Watch which informed American society about the situation in Poland. In 1991 he founded the Polish Library in Washington, DC.
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Jerzy Maria Lasocki a diplomat of the Second Republic of Poland died |
| On December 26, 2003 Jerzy Maria Lasocki, 98, died in Washington. Since 1926 Mr. Lasocki had served as a Polish diplomat in Warsaw, Paris, Brussels, Trieste, Rome, and during World War II in Washington. After the war he served in different U.S. governmental agencies and since 1963 at the State Department. Jerzy Maria Lasocki received several international awards, including distinguished Polish order Polonia Restituta. Having a rich international experience, living in many countries of the world, fluent in Polish, Italian, French and English and conversant in Spanish and German, Mr. Lasocki through all his life remained close to everything “what constitutes Poland”. |