ABW arrest two suspected of revealing state secrets

Officers of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) yesterday morning arrested former officer of the Internal Military Service (WSW) Aleksander Lichocki and journalist Wojciech Sumliński. They are suspected of revealing state secrets.

According to daily Rzeczpospolita's information, they wanted to sell a secret annex of the former intelligence service WSI verification commission report to Agora SA, publisher of Gazeta Wyborcza.

At the same time, ABW officers entered and searched the homes of Piotr Bączek and Leszek Pietrzak, members of the verification commission. Pietrzak stated there were many irregularities during the search, for example, he was not allowed to contact anyone to witness the search. The actions of ABW have been criticized by President Lech Kaczyński.

"This action indicates who is using police methods, while the previous government was suspected of it," he said. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1-A2, A4-A5; Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1,4)