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    Józef Światło, born Izaak Fleischfarb (1 January 1915 – 2 September 1994), was a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Public Security of Poland (UB)...
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    Jakub Berman to send MBP Lieutenant Colonel Józef Światło on an important mission to East Berlin. Światło, deputy head of UB Department 10, together with...
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    widely publicised defection of high-ranking Polish secret police agent Józef Światło had embarrassed the PZPR internationally and resulted in the weakening...
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    Volunteer Reserve Citizen Militia. After the 1954 defection to the West of Józef Światło (born Izaak Fleischfarb), a high-ranking Ministry of Public Security...
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    ISBN 0-521-85332-X, Google Print, p.295-296 Błażyński, Zbigniew (2003). Mówi Józef Światło. Za kulisami bezpieki i partii, 1940–1955. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo LTW...
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    deputy prime minister) in May 1956. He was earlier incriminated by Józef Światło, a former official in the Ministry of Public Security, who defected...
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    mistreating him. Few believed his claim. Ryszard Kuklinski Romuald Spasowski Józef Światło Romanov impostors List of Eastern Bloc defectors Massie, Robert K. (1995)...
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    the country (see: the Cursed soldiers). According to depositions by Józef Światło and other communist sources, the number of members of the Polish underground...
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  • Otey, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution. Józef Światło, 79, Polish intelligence officer and defector . James Thomas Aubrey...
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  • Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer Józef Światło, Stalinist interrogator Leopold Unger, journalist, columnist, and essayist...
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  • torture and terror include Anatol Fejgin (1909–2002) and his deputy Józef Światło (1915–1994), in charge of the MBP's notorious Special Bureau; Salomon...
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  • from Słupsk, Poland to Rønne Airport on the Danish island of Bornholm Józef Światło UB agent Poland 1953 Defected on a mission in East Berlin; he went on...
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  • Witold Pilecki), and sentenced to long prison terms. A UB official, Józef Światło, (born Izaak Fleichfarb), after escaping in 1953 to the West, exposed...
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    failed Berlin riots of 1953 and the highly publicized defection of Józef Światło. Arch Puddington argues that its Hungarian service's coverage of Poland's...
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  • late 1953 after the defection of his close associate Józef Światło to the West Germany. Światło's revelations about the regime's inner workings in 1954...
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  • notorious Special Bureau), deputy Dir. Józef Światło (10th Dept.), Col. Józef Różański among others. Światło, "a torture master", defected to the West...
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  • years in prison in the USSR for violating the rule of law. December 17 Józef Światło, deputy director of Department X of the MBP, fled to West Berlin. The...
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    including Witold Pilecki among others. Yet another Jewish official, Józef Światło, after escaping to the West in 1953, exposed through Radio Free Europe...
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    soon resumed his clandestine work for the NKVD (as revealed first by Józef Światło). He unsuccessfully applied for return to the army. In the fall of 1939...
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    Józef Arkusz (18 March 1921 – 29 June 1995) was a Polish film director and producer of over 70 educational films. Józef Arkusz was born on 18 March 1921...
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  • havoc among his Cold War adversaries and lit the fuse by instructing Józef Światło, his Polish agent within East European counterintelligence, to alert...
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  • Following the defection to the West and revelations of its official Józef Światło, the Ministry of Public Security was abolished in December 1954. Gomułka...
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  • Spitzer, former Governor of New York, Attorney General of New York Józef Światło, Polish intelligence officer Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy Shevah Weiss...
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  • After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953 and the later defection of Col. Józef Światło, the Ministry of Public Security was canceled and replaced by two separate...
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    certificate issued by the administrator of <ŚWIATŁO (Édition La Lumière) at Rue d'Alsace guaranteed Józef Pluskowski an appointment as editor for a period...
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    [Władysław Gomułka: Secretary General of the PPR], p. 5 "The defection of Jozef Swiatlo and the Search for Jewish Scapegoats in the Polish United Workers' Party...
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  • Underground State). Suspended after the 1953 defection of deputy director Józef Światło (Izaak Fleischfarb) who incriminated him and other Stalinists, Fejgin...
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  • interrogation and persecution of Bela and Józef Goldberg – her future colleague, the UB interrogator known as Józef Różański. Różańskis had committed "a crime"...
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  • opowieści z Boccaccia wziętych 1994 Powidok 1993 Światło w mroku 1993 Litwo, słyszę Twój głos 1993 Jan Józef Lipski 1993 Dekalog - Polska 93 Dekalog - Polska...
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    Henryk Rodakowski, Jan Matejko, Józef Chełmoński, Aleksander Gierymski, Jacek Malczewski, Leon Wyczółkowski, Józef Pankiewicz, Władysław Podkowiński...
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