This is how Cenckiewicz revealed MFA documents. A modest half-time job and a salary of PLN 3,000

In the investigation into the publication of secret materials of the Polish army, the prosecutor's office is preparing charges against Sławomir Cenckiewicz for illegal declassification and use of files of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - reported Monday's "Gazeta Wyborcza"

"Spring 2023 Sławomir Cenckiewicz, director of the Military Historical Office (formerly the Central Military Archives) gets a job as an archivist at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A modest half-time position with a salary of PLN 3,000 per month. And a +non-professional position of specialist in historical and documentation matters+ was created especially for Cenckiewicz," we read in the newspaper.

"GW" adds that this was a formal basis for Cenckiewicz and his subordinate from WBH, Łukasz Cięgotura, to "enter the ministry's archives and look for dirt on Donald Tusk, Radosław Sikorski and other KO politicians who ruled in the years 2007-2015". Access to the documents covered by the secret clause was provided to Cenckiewicz - as the newspaper reported - by the then director of the Office of Archives and Information Management of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Karol Pietrzyk.

The daily also recalled that on May 8, Cenckiewicz received charges from the military department of the Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office regarding aiding and abetting the disclosure in 2023 by Mariusz Błaszczak, then head of the Ministry of National Defense, of fragments of the Polish Army's operational plans, as well as the use of secret Polish Army plans in the TVP series "Reset" by Cenckiewicz and Michał Rachoń.

"The MFA thread includes many more documents than the one concerning the army. (...) In addition to Cenckiewicz, the suspects may also include former MFA chief Zbigniew Rau and officials who allowed Cenckiewicz to rummage through archives. An important role in the proceedings is played by the testimonies given in the investigation into the visa scandal by Piotr Wawrzyk, a former deputy minister and PiS MP, and his assistant Edgar K." - we read in "Gazeta Wyborcza". (PAP)

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