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According to the Post article, the Reagan Administration had been informed of Jaruzelski's plans for a military crackdown fully a month before martial law was imposed. The Administration's alleged source was Colonel Wladyslaw Kuklinski, a senior Polish staff officer who was on the payroll of the CIA. Urban told the Post that the U.S. could have prevented the subsequent arrests and internments by warning Solidarity of the imminent government action. He also charged that by remaining silent, the U.S. demonstrated that it had no interest in averting a "bloody conflict" in Poland. Urban demanded that the Post confront...
...concluded that Urban's account was a "self-serving attempt to lay the blame for martial law in Poland somewhere else." They admitted that the Administration had received "conflicting reports" on the pre-martial-law climate from several sources but had not known definitely whether, or when, the crackdown would take place. Further, one intelligence source said, any action would have jeopardized Kuklinski's life, impaired future intelligence-gathering capabilities in Poland and had no effect on the Polish government's chosen course of action. The State Department did not deny that Kuklinski had been a U.S. agent. He reportedly...
...Jaruzelski regime. Solidarity Founder Lech Walesa told reporters that Urban's statements contradicted the Polish regime's previous accounts of the martial-law decision. At the time, Jaruzelski had claimed that military rule was a last-minute response to Solidarity provocation. But by admitting that plans for a crackdown were formulated as early as November, Walesa charged last week, Urban lent credence to the "Solidarity conviction that (martial law) was premeditated." Declared Janusz Onyszkiewicz, another former Solidarity leader: "This is simply a campaign to diminish the sympathy that the U.S. Administration enjoys in Poland...
...crackdown was in part aimed at Obando. Broadcasts of his sermons, which were yanked from government television six years ago, were banned...
...Kremlin that followed, Eastern Europe was granted an unprecedented degree of latitude. Each country reacted differently to the chance to take some independent action. Hungary, for example, introduced many Western-style incentives for workers and managers. Czechoslovakia stagnated, though, and Poland lurched toward freedom until Moscow ordered a crackdown...