In an interview for Polish Radio, the investigative journalist talks about his 300-page book entitled The dangerous relations of Donald Tusk, which he called “an absolute compendium of knowledge about the former Polish prime minister, a very important European Union politician and a person whom many still see in the role of president of Poland”.
Sumliński said Tusk was a key player in Poland’s transformation from communism to democracy at the turn of the 80s and 90s.
According to Sumliński, Tusk has been falsely portrayed as being a member of an anti-communist resistance movement.
The author said that Tusk was detained by communist authorities only once, together with a number of others during a meeting of conspirators working to bring the regime down.
All of those people were released and later tortured, with the exception of Donald Tusk, who was issued a passport and travelled around Europe, Sumliński said.
According to Sumliński, Tusk introduced to Poland’s opposition a military intelligence agent, Wiktor Kubiak, who was portrayed as a businessman and patron of the arts.
Sumliński accused Kubiak of being involved in the “mother of all scandals”, saying he defrauded USD 1.7 billion.
According to the author, Kubiak was once seen disembarking from a helicopter with shopping bags full of cash under his arms, adding that “this was how the Liberal Democratic Congress (a party led by Tusk with roots in the anti-communist Solidarity movement) was funded”.
Sumliński said that, as Poland became a democracy, state companies were privatised in what was essentially daylight robbery, as such concerns were often sold for less than the value of the land they were built on.
He added that supporters of Tusk’s party were given powerful roles and shares in privatised state companies.
Sumliński also said that during the transformation period, numerous foundations were set up and run by so-called consultants whose job it was to teach Poland how to be a democracy.
However, those consultants were actually spies, Sumliński said.
Sumliński claimed that Kubiak had meetings with members of Israel’s Mossad, Russia’s KGB and Main Intelligence Directorate, as well as with Germans.
He alleged that those consultants conducted secret searches and that the documents they were interested in suggested they were spying.
Sumliński also said that Tusk was connected to Detlef Ruser, whom the author said was a former Stasi agent. Sumliński added that, while ties between the pair were at one point cut, Ruser maintained contact with people in Tusk’s circle.
Sumliński also said that Ruser did not stop being an agent after the Berlin wall came down, but that he transferred to Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service.
Connecting the dots between Tusk’s acquaintances will answer many questions, Sumliński said, but reading the book will explain a lot more.
Sumliński added that, after reading his new book, anyone who wanted to see Tusk as a potential future president of Poland would change their mind.
Sumliński said it took him and co-author Tomasz Budzyński, an agent of the Internal Security Agency, more than a year of research, and the help of Polish and German special services, Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, and anonymous sources to write the book.
Sumliński is also the author of a book about the murder of Solidarity chaplain Jerzy Popiełuszko. (vb)
Source: radiozagranica.pl