Colonel Kukliński laid to rest in Powązki Cemetery

About 2,000 people attended the funeral ceremony of colonel Ryszard Kukliński and his son Waldemar in Warsaw's Powązki Military Cemetery on Saturday. Kukliński died on 11 February in the U.S., but his family decided to bury him in Poland together with his son, who died in 1994, also in the U.S. in unknown circumstances. During the communist period, Kukliński passed secrets to NATO and American intelligence without being paid. During that time he managed to give the Americans about 35,000 Russian Red Army classified files. In danger of being exposed, he fled to the U.S in 1981. In 1984 he was sentenced to death by a Polish military court, but was cleared of charges in 1997. In a report for President Reagan from February 1982, the former CIA head William Casey wrote about Kulkiński that, "Nobody in the world has done so much to harm the communist system as he has." (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A5) D.W.