Sławomir Petelicki
Sławomir Petelicki (born September 13, 1946 in Warsaw ; † June 16, 2012 there ) was a Polish officer who initially belonged to the foreign espionage of the communist-controlled secret police SB and who built up the anti-terrorist unit GROM of the Polish Interior Ministry after the political change in 1989/90 .
Career
In the People's Republic of Poland until 1989
Petelecki's parents held important positions in the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of Poland : The father, who had joined a communist partisan group during World War II , was most recently a colonel in the General Staff's Foreign Department, while his mother worked in the Armaments Department.
After studying law at the University of Warsaw , Petelicki joined the 1st Department of the SB, which dealt with foreign espionage in 1969. Officially accredited as a diplomat , he was first sent to the Polish embassies in Hanoi and Beijing . In 1973 he was transferred to the Polish Consulate General in New York City , where his duties included observing the US security advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński , who came from Poland, and the journalist Jan Nowak-Jeziorański , the head of the Polish program of the US broadcaster Radio Free Europe .
After returning to Poland in 1978, he was responsible for combating “ideological diversion”. This included observing anti-communist dissidents from the Confederation for an Independent Poland (KPN) and the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR). On his next post abroad in Stockholm he had to spy on the foreign organization of the now banned independent union Solidarność .
In 1988 he returned to Poland again. After the formation of the coalition government made up of Solidarność and the Polish United Workers' Party (PVAP), the Communist Interior Minister General Czesław Kiszczak, who remained in office, appointed him as deputy head of the SB's foreign espionage in September 1989.
In the Republic of Poland after 1990
After Kiszczak's dismissal, his successor Krzysztof Kozłowski , who belonged to the democracy movement around Solidarność, had the SB dissolved and its previous officers verified . Petelecki belonged to the group that was found suitable to build security forces in democratic Poland. Under the guidance of experts from the USA and the United Kingdom , he took on the rank of colonel to set up an anti-terrorist unit that was subordinate to the Home Secretary. He had also qualified for this through paratrooper , sniper and diving training. He also had a 1st dan in judo and was an expert on difficult helicopter landings.
In his new post he survived another wave of dismissals of former self-service officers, ordered by Antoni Macierewicz , the decidedly anti-communist interior minister of the right-wing government formed in 1991 under Jan Olszewski . Apart from a brief hiatus when he was a government advisor on the fight against organized crime , he led the unit until 1999, the final year of the rank of brigadier general .
After leaving the service, he worked as a management consultant for security issues, including a. for the Warsaw branch of Ernst & Young . He also appeared as a publicist and in doing so moved closer and closer to positions of the national patriotic camp. In press articles he repeatedly criticized the alleged neglect of national security problems by President Bronisław Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk (e.g. in the expert report he co-authored on the plane crash near Smolensk ).
death
On June 16, 2012, Petelicki died from a gunshot wound in the head area. A pistol and an empty cartridge case were found next to his body. The police said after the first investigation that everything speaks for suicide. Less than a year after his death, the prosecution closed the investigation because "no evidence of a crime" was found.
Awards
- Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland for bravery
- Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland in gold
- Order of Polonia Restituta Officer and Commander's Cross
- Legion of Merit (USA)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Petelickiego życie skrywane in Rzeczpospolita from October 27, 2010.
- ↑ Kalwaryjskie pisanie podań in Rzeczpospolita, May 16, 2009.
- ↑ a b Petelickiego życie skrywane in Uważam Rze, June 24, 2012.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biuletyn IPN , 10-11 / 2009
- ↑ http://www.antyterroryzm.gov.pl/portal/CAT/195/498/Kalendarium.html
- ↑ Andrzej Wojtas: śmierć generała Sławomira Petelickiego była szokiem. To memento dla Polski in onet.wiadomości.pl from June 6, 2013
- ↑ ludzie z dawnej SB są kolejno eliminowani ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in onet.wiadomości.pl from June 24, 2012.
- ↑ Nominacje generalskie i odznaczenia in prezydent.pl of August 15, 1998
- ↑ Dorota Kania: Cień służb tajnych . Wydawnictwo M, Kraków 2013, ISBN 978-83-7595-640-5 , p. 195 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ - Przyjmuję akces pana generała do Komitetu poparcia Marszu Niepodległości jako przejście na właściwą stronę - mówi portalowi Fronda.pl prof. Jan Żaryn, historyk, również członek Komitetu poparcia MN. in fronda.pl from November 14, 2011.
- ↑ Generał Sławomir Petelicki: - Polskim wojskiem rządzi beton in Nowa Trybuna Opolska, July 17, 2010
- ↑ Raport Zespołu Ekspertów Niezależnych (ZEN). Dlaczego musiało dojść do katastrofy smoleńskie in wspolczesna.pl
- ↑ Generał Sławomir Petelicki nie żyje. Policja: To prawdopodobnie samobójstwo in Gazeta Wyborcza, June 17, 2012.
- ↑ Śledztwo ws. śmierci generała Petelickiego umorzone in tvn24.pl from June 6, 2013.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petelicki, Sławomir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 2012 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |