Living in the late 1980s and 1990s in Saska Kępa Anatolij Wasin was a KGB agent who impersonated a diplomat (which was a permanent maneuver utilized by the USSR). Wasin was to come to Kaczyński, treat him with alcohol and tell anecdotes about the life and functioning of the communist party. In his “Understanding Against Monopower” – a book that is memories of the 1990s. “Jarosław Kaczyński claims that Wasina was deceiving, approaching him only and only to draw applicable information. Himself accused by Tusk of dealing with an agent, he admitted that it was all about organizing Lech Walesa's visit to Moscow.
The case of Kaczyński's contacts with Wasin was dealt with respective years ago by investigative writer Tomasz Friday.
Friday points out that Wasin was a specialist in the KGB from Finland and could propose Poland's model of finlandization, which meant preserving interior democracy while at the same time submitting abroad policy to the Kremlin. Although Kaczyński spoke to him about this, he himself confesses that he never accepted this concept, remaining passionate and believing in full independency as a patriot.
For Wasin himself, it was crucial that Kaczyński was then the secretary of the National Executive Commission on Solidarity, having access to crucial information and global contacts, which may have been attractive to Russian intelligence. These contacts could have been utilized by Wasin to gain information, but besides by Kaczyński to better realize and anticipate Russia's activities in the region.
Kaczyński's lying. Wasin was a KGB officer. Kaczyński drank with him and exchanged information.
Silentanowski states that Kaczyński never told him about Wasina.
The spy met Kaczyński as Wasin. In his book, Kaczyński distorted his name to make recognition difficult. pic.twitter.com/REmZuYfj1G
— Tomasz Friday #ResetCitizen (@Tomasz5ek) May 10, 2024
Interestingly, the contacts with Wasin did not (or at least officially) arise from the Russian initiative, but alternatively were organized by the Democratic Party, which, as Friday suggests, brought Kaczyński into the ellipse of Russian influences. Kaczyński himself argued that talks with the Russians were held at a low level, which could minimize their political significance. However, in retrospect they seem to have deeper consequences, especially in the context of the planned coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. Wasin in an interview with Kaczyński referred to his acquaintance with Giennadi Janajev, the author of the unsuccessful August 1991 coup.
What motives truly led Kaczyński during meetings with the Russian? Tomasz Friday suggests that Kaczyński does not tell us everything and manipulates us with facts to present himself in a more favorable light. The author of “Macierevicz and his secrets” straight suggests that it is highly likely that the later leader of the Centre’s Agreement gave the atmosphere of the collapse of the strategy and, like erstwhile SB agents, in various places he was looking for hooks for political opponents he could then usage in the campaign.
