Ryszard Kukliński believed that he would be able to prevent the war in Europe between the Warsaw Pact and NATO countries by handing in 40, 265 pages of secret military documents of East Germany and People's Republic of Poland to CIA in West Germany

Kukliński was born in Warsaw into a working-class family with catholic and socialist traditions.

Kukliński was also concerned that his homeland would be turned into a nuclear wasteland as the Warsaw Pact's superiority in conventional forces would mean NATO would respond to a military action with tactical nuclear weapons.

On May 23, 1984 Kukliński was sentenced to death, in absentia, by a military court in Warsaw.

While details of the general plans for the Warsaw Pact forces were known only in Moscow, Kukliński could infer much from his contacts at the Moscow high command headquarters.

A placard with a dedication to Ryszard Kukliński in Warsaw.

When all charges were dropped against Kukliński in 1997, the left leaning Trybuna lamented that " Colonel Ryszard Kukliński — a spy, deserter, and traitor — has been turned into a model of virtue and a national hero of the rightists.

In June 1986, a spokesman for the Soviet-backed Jaruzelski regime, Jerzy Urban, revealed Kukliński's existence to the world in order to make the argument that the Reagan administration had been informed by Kukliński of the plans to install martial law but had betrayed the Solidarity movement by not passing that information on to its " friends " in Solidarity.

* 1930 – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish spy ( d. 2004 )

Ryszard Jerzy Kukliński ( June 13, 1930 – February 11, 2004 ) was a Polish colonel, Cold War spy and communist whistleblower.

After the war, Kukliński began a successful career in the Polish People's Army.

Disturbed by the invasion, and by the brutal crushing of the parallel Polish 1970 protests – in 1972, Kukliński sent a letter to the US embassy in Bonn describing himself as a foreign " MAF " from a Communist country, and requested a secret meeting.

In 1994, Kukliński said that his awareness of the " unambiguously offensive " nature of Soviet military plans was an important factor in his decision to communicate the details of those plans to the United States, adding that " Our front could only be a sacrifice of Polish blood at the altar of the Red Empire ".

When the journal Kultura interviewed Kukliński, Kukliński said that planning for martial law had begun in late 1980 and that the Jaruzelski group planned to crush Solidarity regardless of the outcome of negotiations with the trade union and the Polish church.

Kukliński was the chief of a military strategic command planning division of the Polish army, he was the liaison between the Polish army and the command of the Soviet military.

The administration of US President Clinton nonetheless took the stance that it would oppose Polish membership in NATO unless Kukliński were exonerated.

The Polish political group Centrum ( at the time headed by Zbigniew Religa ) requested in 2004 that the President of Poland posthumously promote Kukliński to the rank of general.

* Ryszard Kukliński, a Polish colonel, Cold War spy and communist whistleblower, sentenced in absentia to death as a traitor in 1984 by communist court in The People Republic of Poland.

On June 3 he met with a Washington Post reporter and told him that a Polish spy for the CIA, who was later identified as Ryszard Kukliński, was aware of the plan to install martial law in 1981 and had passed that information on to Washington.

Leszek Miller played an important role in concluding the case of Colonel Ryszard Kukliński, for which he was severely criticised within his political circle.

Facing imminent danger of discovery, Kukliński was spirited out of Poland by the CIA, along with his wife and two sons, shortly before the imposition of martial law in December 1981.

Kukliński visited Poland again in April 1998.

During his term as Poland's first freely elected president, Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa refused to pardon Kukliński and a poll taken in 1998 found that more Poles ( 34 %) considered Kukliński a traitor than a hero ( 29 %), with many undecided.

He praised the Cold War anti-communist spy Colonel Ryszard Kukliński in an open letter to then president Lech Wałęsa in 1994, and later also expressed support for the Chechen Dzjochar Dudajev.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

the prolusion in which the autobiographic statement about the epithet occurs is such a mass of intentionally buried allusions that almost nothing in it can be accepted as true -- or discarded as false.

There is Karl Marx, of course, buried in London.

But De Gaulle is buried in the cause of restoring France's lost soul.

And the man who brought sweet potatoes into Kanto is buried there, next to a beautiful seated statue of Fudo.

He is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.

The other account is found in Deuteronomy 10: 6, where Moses is reported as saying that Aaron died at Moserah and was buried there.

She died around 1603 and is buried in the O ' Malley family tomb on Clare Island.

Doubleday died of heart disease in Mendham, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

There is a obelisk monument at Arlington National Cemetery where he is buried, located about behind the Lee Mansion.

The Terracotta Army commissioned by the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi is a collection of about 8000 life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses buried with the emperor.

He is buried in the former convent of Abensberg.

It is shaped like an inverted mushroom, the head becoming buried in the silt.

A counterweight is often provided at the other end of the shank to lay it down before it becomes buried.

The holding power of this anchor is at best about twice its weight until it becomes buried, when it can be as much as ten times its weight.

Its holding power is defined by its weight underwater ( i. e. taking its buoyancy into account ) regardless of the type of seabed, although suction can increase this if it becomes buried.

He died at Topkapı Palace in Constantinople and is buried in a mausoleum right outside the walls of the famous mosque.

He is buried in at the Mausoleum of Aga Khan, on the Nile in Aswan, Egypt.

He built San Tirso, where he is buried, and Santullano, on the outskirts.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

Carnegie is buried only a few yards away from union organizer Samuel Gompers, another important figure of industry in the Gilded Age.

Due to nuclear scarring of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, the hyperstructure is buried deep underground.