born january september high ranking official poland employed deputy director run known supervising torture inmates nicknamed butcher prisoners death arrest travelled official business trip berlin subway passing sector city slipped away defected west december berlin worked cia written broadcast shook ultimately contributed reform polish security apparatus end period factors leading political socialist polish october revolution biography born january sources vary jewish family near ukraine second polish republic later communist activist arrested twice illegal activities served polish 6th infantry division polish september campaign year taken prisoner germans escaped taken prisoner invaded family lived deported east thousands period april married taking polish sounding surname eventually joined east polish 1st political officer promoted junior lieutenant involved organising state administration areas taken germans transferred newly formed poland work like communist secret police agents torture involved arresting hundreds members polish underground organization leadership trial sixteen polish referendum time promoted lieutenant colonel served offices departments eventually ending 10th department leading officers responsible handling party members received orders personally secretary party arrested notable people politicians general cardinal access unique secret documents interrogated august brother citizen went poland look brother secretly imprisoned years information revealed west november secretary party asked member send lieutenant colonel important mission deputy head colonel asked consult chief eliminating death march arrest june year afraid life suspected poland turn members ministry attempting officers traveled berlin spoke december day meeting chief defected military mission left family wife children poland day american military authorities transported frankfurt flown washington underwent extensive reported compiled long reports united_states gave political asylum knowledge protected rest life number victims relatives victims sworn exact retribution great aftermath revealed poland october labelled traitor widely publicised united_states europe authorities poland embarrassing communist authorities warsaw international press conference took place september intimate knowledge internal politics polish government especially activities secret services course following months newspapers scenes secret service party cycle reported extensively political repression poland based revelations known operation spotlight broadcast interviews programs broadcasts serialized distributed poland special balloons detailed torture prisoners interrogation politically motivated executions struggles inside polish polish communists intelligence public security agencies escaped unscathed secrets revealed highly publicised colonel mention general hatred poles led changes late soon entire ministry broken reorganised officials arrested scandal contributed events political poland known polish october long time uncertain dead alive information protected witness protection program rumours died late 1960s united_states government stated died september documents relating classified united_states available researchers
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