Poland and the CIA: From Solidarity to Silence and Darkness
When Polish security forces came to arrest Poland’s Solidarity Movement leader, Lech Walesa, he said, “This is the moment of your defeat. These are the last nails in the coffin of Communism.”(1) Not only did he understand that millions of workers in Poland’s Solidarity Movement (National Coordinating Committee of Independent Autonomous Trade Unions) would continue to resist oppression and struggle for economic and political freedoms, but he also knew that clandestine aid and assistance from the CIA would help bring an end to Soviet and Communist rule. It was of great disservice to Poland’s government and the memory of the Solidarity Movement, then, when the CIA and President Barack Obama…
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