Word: platek
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Jaruzelski's trip notwithstanding, there was no shortage of drama at the trial. General Zenon Platek, 58, the suspended official of the Interior Ministry assigned to monitor church activities, made the surprising claim that the ministry was aware of a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his 1983 visit to Poland and that several people with explosives were arrested. A Vatican spokesman said last week that he was not aware of such a plot, as did Warsaw's official spokesman, Jerzy Urban. Platek also claimed that just before Popieluszko's murder, the priest was to be dispatched...
Prior to Byrdy's appearance, General Platek gave testimony that contradicted sworn statements by the very men that he had assigned to investigate the case. He claimed, for example, that because he was drowsy from the effect of sleeping pills, he had failed to realize the significance of the fact that a ministry car had been spotted in the city of Bydgoszcz the night of the priest's death. Platek also insisted that the date on a travel permit that Piotrowski had used the night Popieluszko was killed had been altered before it was turned over as evidence...
...Interior Ministry or a deputy minister." Chmielewski claimed that Piotrowski told him after the murder that they had no reason to fear the investigating commission set up in the Interior Ministry. Piotrowski said that it would be made up of the "right people" and mentioned General Zenon Platek, director of the religious affairs department, and secret-police colonel Zbigniew Jablonski...