The press spokesman of the minister coordinator of secret services, Stanisław Żaryn, announced that the Internal Security Agency (ABW) had prepared a list of 45 diplomats who worked for Russia’s intelligence. The Russian ambassador to Poland was urgently summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Earlier, the Internal Security Agency detained a man suspected of spying for Russia.

“The Internal Security Agency indicates that Russia is more and more often offensive against Poland. A list of 45 diplomats, working on behalf of Russia’s intelligence has been prepared. The Agency has applied for the expulsion of these people from Poland”, said Żaryn.

Earlier, on March 17, the Internal Security Agency detained in Warsaw a man suspected of espionage. The man worked in one of the local offices, where he copied data and passed them on to Russians from the civil foreign intelligence service SWR FR.

The detainee worked in the Archive Department of the Registry of Civil Status in the Archives of the Registry Office of the Capital City of Warsaw. He had access to the database of the Archives of the Civil Registry Office, to the data of the Central Archives of Historical Records and the State Archives of the Capital City of Warsaw.

The Masovian branch of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, supervising the ABW investigation, initiated an investigation into participation in the activities of foreign intelligence and passing on to this intelligence information that could be harmful to the Republic of Poland.

The entire investigation will be conducted by the Internal Security Agency. At the request of the prosecutor, the court decided to arrest the detained for three months.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński