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Michael Goleniewski. Michał Franciszek Goleniewski, also known as 'SNIPER' and 'LAVINIA' (16 August 1922 – 12 July 1993), was an officer in the Polish People's Republic 's Ministry of Public Security, deputy head of military counterintelligence GZI WP, later head of the Polish Intelligence technical and scientific section, and in the 1950s a ...
Jan 1, 2022 · It would be his final role and, like the positions which preceded it, brought Goleniewski into close contact with all of Poland’s military and civilian espionage services. According to the ...
Body: Approved for Release: 2022/08/01 CO2864151 * SECRET Briefing Paper The Goleniewski Case Born in Poland in 1922, Goleniewski began his intelligence career as a counterspy for that notorious Soviet service SMERSH, recruited by his father, also a member of SMERSH, at the age of eighteen to work for the Soviets against the Germans in Poland.
Goleniewski's claim was an embarrassment to the CIA. He was put on a pension and his employment with the agency was ended in 1964. [1] [11] Goleniewski also claimed to have detailed information about alleged Tsarist money. His claims are detailed in the books Lost Fortune of the Tsars by William Clarke, and Hunt for the Czar by Guy Richards.
A book published later this week tells the thrilling, bizarre and ultimately tragic story of Poland’s most devastating Cold War defector. Michał Goleniewski was the highest-ranking intelligence officer in communist Poland to ever flee the country. His betrayal exposed to the West more than 1,600 Soviet bloc intelligence officers, and agent ...
Sep 16, 2021 · ABSTRACT. Michal Goleniewski was one of the Cold War’s most important spies but has been overlooked in the vast literature on the intelligence battles between the Western Powers and the Soviet Bloc. Renowned investigative journalist Kevin Coogan reveals Goleniewski's extraordinary story for the first time in this biography.
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Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For almost three years, as a Lieutenant Colonel at the top of Poland’s espionage service, he smuggled thousands of top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, from behind the Iron Curtain. Then, in January 1961, he abandoned his wife and children to make a dramatic defection across divided Berlin with his East German mistress to the safety of ...
