Defending Human Rights Worldwide. National Security Bureau Prof. Stanisław Koziej, PhD, Secretary of State - Head of the National Security Bureau - Contact: phone: +48 22 695 18 00 fax: +48 22 695 18 01 email: bbn@bbn.gov.pl Born in 1943 in Glinnik near Lublin, Gen.
Stanisław Koziej graduated from the Mechanised Forces Military Academy in Wrocław (1965) and The Academy of the General Staff of the Polish Army in Warsaw (1973). Stanisław Koziej has been specializing in the national and international policy and strategy (including defences), as well as security strategic management. He was co-founder of the Polish Defence Doctrine under strategic autonomy conditions during the 1990s and the main author of "Poland's Defence Plan”. As an expert in several fields such as army, defence, international and national security as well as security management and crisis management, he wrote numerous textbooks and studies, including: He also participated in several joint works, including: Retired General-Brigadier professor Koziej is married with two children – daughter Anna and son Andrzej.
Career: For several years S. Rendition Warsaw WikiLeakZ. 09-02 Polish CIA prison: US and Poland had been trying to "put story to rest" #wlfind. A new Wikileaks release 05WARSAW4030 finally proves that the United States and Poland colluded in their efforts to silence questions about a CIA prison in Masovia.
This is what the cable says: "[FM] Meller's staff expects that the renditions and "CIA prisons" issue will continue to dog the Polish government, despite our and the Poles' best efforts to put this story to rest. In response to sustained media pressure, PM Marcinkiewicz announced December 10 that his government will order an internal probe "to close the issue.
" Meller anticipates being asked about renditions by the Polish press while in Washington, and the MFA has asked that we remain in close contact to coordinate our public stance. " In another cable 05WARSAW4037 from the same year, the issue is brought up again: "[Polish government official Schnepf] noted the GOP's need to find tangible benefit from the mission to gain public support for a continued Polish presence in Iraq.
For our previous coverage please see this page. CIA prison in Poland. Poland is under increasing pressure to investigate fully whether the CIA operated secret torture and detention facilities in Stare Kiejkuty.
As Peter Kemp predicted, the European Parliament has now intervened. In a resolution from the eighth of June it says that it: "5. Reiterates its call to the US authorities to review the military commissions system to ensure fair trials, to close Guantánamo, to prohibit in any circumstances the use of torture, ill-treatment, incommunicado detention, indefinite detention without trial and enforced disappearances, and reminds the EU institutions and Member States of their duty not to collaborate in, or cover up, such acts prohibited by international, European and national law;" "7. Jerzy Szmajdziński. Grave of Jerzy Szmajdziński in Wilanów Jerzy Andrzej Szmajdziński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ ʂmajˈdʑiɲskʲi], April 9, 1952 – April 10, 2010) was a Polish politician who was a Vice-Marshal of Polish Sejm and previously served as Minister of Defence.
He was a candidate for President of Poland in the 2010 election. Szmajdziński graduated from the Wrocław University of Economics. In the 1970s and 1980s he was an activist for the Federation of Socialist Unions of Polish Youth and the Socialist Union of Polish Youth, serving as its chairman from 1986–1989. He remained a member of Polish United Workers' Party from 1973 until its end in 1990. He became a member of the Sejm in 1990, and in his second term Szmajdziński was chairman of the National Defense Committee and in the third term a deputy chairman of that commission. On a national SLD convention in December 2009 he was chosen as the party's candidate in the 2010 presidential elections in Poland. Honours and awards[edit] See also[edit] Jerzy Szmajdziński.