Colonel Ryszard Kukliński dies in a Washington hospital at the age of 74

He was a former co-worker for the CIA who passed on the Soviet plans of invading Western Europe to the Americans. Colonel Kukliński, an officer of the Polish Army Headquarters, delivered 35,000 pages of confidential documents concerning military forces of the communist regime from 1970 to 1981. In 1981 Kukliński and his family escaped with the help of American intelligence to the USA, where he was awarded the 'Distinguished Intelligence' order. He was later sentenced to death in Poland for treason and espionage in 1984 for his actions. However, this sentence was later dismissed during an investigation in 1997, which ruled that he was acting in favor of Poland. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) M.M