Former US Ambassador Rey agrees: Szlajfer case 'needs to be researched thoroughly'
Commenting on this blogger's report on the Henryk Szlajfer case and the evidence indicating Soviet-era collaboration with the Polish KGB, former US Ambassador to Poland Nicholas Rey told Gazeta Wyborcza, "the case needs to be researched thoroughly."
Ambassador Rey cautioned that he thought Gazeta Wyborcza shouldn't be making such a big deal about the issue, because it is from a just one person's blog (this blogger concurs!). He added that he thought Szlajfer was treated "absolutely unfairly." However, his words showed agreement that the concerns raised in the blog needed to be fully investigated.
Rey served as President Bill Clinton's ambassador to Warsaw in the 1990s. In his words to Gazeta Wyborcza, translated back to English from Polish, he stated, "We should not overestimate the article of Mr. Waller. This is not a text from the New York Times. The case needs to be researched thoroughly, of course, and see what Szlajfer has to say. However, this article is not an objective historical testimony. It is a political game. Szlajfer was treated absolutely unfairly."
The former US diplomat criticized this blogger for having argued that Poland should lustrate its government and military of former Soviet secret police and intelligence collaborators prior to entering NATO.
Szlajfer denies he was a secret police collaborator. His response to the blog article appears below.
Ambassador Rey cautioned that he thought Gazeta Wyborcza shouldn't be making such a big deal about the issue, because it is from a just one person's blog (this blogger concurs!). He added that he thought Szlajfer was treated "absolutely unfairly." However, his words showed agreement that the concerns raised in the blog needed to be fully investigated.
Rey served as President Bill Clinton's ambassador to Warsaw in the 1990s. In his words to Gazeta Wyborcza, translated back to English from Polish, he stated, "We should not overestimate the article of Mr. Waller. This is not a text from the New York Times. The case needs to be researched thoroughly, of course, and see what Szlajfer has to say. However, this article is not an objective historical testimony. It is a political game. Szlajfer was treated absolutely unfairly."
The former US diplomat criticized this blogger for having argued that Poland should lustrate its government and military of former Soviet secret police and intelligence collaborators prior to entering NATO.
Szlajfer denies he was a secret police collaborator. His response to the blog article appears below.
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