Servant of Stalin

To mark the 25th anniversary of the imposition of communist martial law in Poland, we bring you a secret military police document regarding the recruitment of Wojciech Jaruzelski into the Soviet GRU (GZ IW), as an agent of Stalin, in 1946.

A copy of the original handwritten document accompanies this story, below. A translation follows:

Top secret

INFORMATION
regarding officers selected to work in the 2nd Bureau of the Supreme Commander [i.e., Military Information, Poland's GRU]

1. Lt. Col. Jeruzelski Wojciech, son of Wladyslaw, born in 1923 in Kurow, the County of Pulawy, a son of an estate manager. Before the war, he attended school. After 1939 he and his family escaped to Lithuania, where he worked as a farm laborer. In June 1941 he was evacuated along with his family to the Altai Krai, where he also worked as a laborer. In July 1943 he was mobilized to the Polish Army and has served with the armed forces since. His latest assignment is the chief of a department at the General Staff of the Land Forces.

He is our secret informer [t/inf] with a pseudonym "Wolski" recruited because of his patriotic convictions, while he served with the 5th Infantry Division, on March 23, 1946.

He is characterized as a valuable individual and a member of the [Communist] party.
A good secret collaborator, he is fit to become a rezydent [a plenipotentiary agent of the GRU].

We have no k/m [komprmaterialy] [i.e., no data compromising Jaruzelski].
(This is based upon data provided by the I Dept. of the GZIW [Central Directorate of Military Information -- GRU])....