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The untold story of how Polish spies helped the CIA carry-out secret missions around the world

Polish spies helped free U.S. intelligence operatives captured in Iraq — and continue to play an unsung role in America's spycraft around the world.
Judge William Webster, CIA director, on the first trip of a CIA director to Eastern Europe in November of 1990, after the exfiltration operation. William Webster is in the center of the picture. (Courtesy)

A new book tells the story of how Polish and U.S. spy agencies began working together after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and how Poland became one of the closest allies of America’s intelligence agencies.

Polish spies helped free U.S. intelligence operatives captured in Iraq, and continue to play an unsung role in America’s spycraft around the world.

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with John Pomfret, former Washington Post correspondent and author of “From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance.”

Book excerpt: ‘From Warsaw with Love’

By John Pomfret

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