The CIA and MI6 spied on Miller, but are they also phone tapping PM Belka?
According to a major article in weekly Wprost based on a translation of an article by Gordon Thomas which was published in a British newspaper, British Foreign Military Intelligence (MI6) in league with American intelligence (CIA), began a major operation on February 9, 2003 to spy on the then Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Richard Dearlove, the Director General of MI6 appears to have exchanged a number of e-mails with George Tentem, the chief of the CIA, as both the Americans and British wanted to find out if they could be absolutely certain that Miller would be a solid ally during the Iraq war, and that he would not weaken due to pressure from France and Germany. To achieve this aim, the Menwith Hill monitoring station in the North of England was used in conjunction with the Echelon system, which was able to recognize and record Miller's voice in any phone conversation as well as those of his closest associates. Of course many questions remain. Did the western powers just listen to what Miller had to say on Iraq, or did they record his conversations with Russia President Vladmir Putin, or confidential talks with the Chinese, or the shaping of relations with states in the Middle East. Perhaps the most relevant question is now, is Marek Belka also being subject to the same treatment? (Wprost, May 30, 2004, p. 34-36) R.H.