Macierewicz to be appointed as intelligence supervisor?

Macierewicz revealed a list of 64 alleged communist agents among state officials on June 4 1992, which indirectly triggered the government's dismissal by President Lech Wałęsa. Some of the people on the list had never co-operated with communist intelligence. Macierewicz is quite influential through his friends and subordinates in the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) and state companies. He firmly supports vetting and Radio Maryja, which, as he claims, represents the "real nation" and that the radio station is oppressed by a communist conspiracy. He supports a theory that Poland is ruled by one big conspiracy of secret services, media and even mafia. Jarosław Kaczyński is to speak on Macierewicz's possible appointment on Monday, but he has already declared that he would choose a person who is competent and tough to the extreme to fill the post and various media have been reporting that Macierewicz fits this description. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 8) J.L.