Ryszard Kuklinski, a former Polish army officer who secretly served as one of the CIA’s most important spies behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 73. The former colonel ...

The Polish-born spy Ryszard Kuklinski died of a stroke Wednesday in Washington, D.C. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Benjamin Weiser, author of a new book on Kuklinski called The Secret Life, about how ...

Tell me what you think of Colonel Kuklinski, and I'll tell you who you are." That was the phrase being bandied about in Warsaw political circles following the Feb. 10 death of Ryszard Kuklinski, a ...

HE HAS NEVER READ A SPY novel. But from 1972 to 1981, Polish Col. Ryszard Kuklinski lived a double life that could have been concocted by John le Carre. While serving as a military planner and aide to ...

For nearly a decade, a colonel on the Polish General Staff, Ryszard Kukliński, provided invaluable information about Soviet and Warsaw Pact military activities to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ...

A SECRET LIFE: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country By Benjamin Weiser PublicAffairs, $27.50, 400 pp Reviewed by TOM VALEO From 1972 until 1981, Ryszard ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — For many Poles, Col. Ryszard Kuklinski was a traitor for passing secrets to the Americans during the Cold War — and even Solidarity leader Lech Walesa refused to honor him after ...

Highly placed in the military councils of the Warsaw Pact, Polish colonel Ryszard Kuklinski made himself the CIA's most important East Bloc intelligence asset in the 1970s, passing along invaluable ...

Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski. If life is complicated for an ordinary person, it is certainly more so for a spy. Espionage, long romanticized in the popular imagination, is in reality a murky world with ...

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