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Boris Korczak

Boris Sielicki-Korczak (Born February 11, 1939) is a Polish National and United States Citizen, who worked as a CIA Field Operative between 1973 and 1979. He married Barbara Sielicki-Korczak (née Kaniewski) in 1971 and is a father of two children, Robert Sielicki-Korczak (b. 1973) and Sandra Sielicki-Korczak (b. 1978).

Contents

1. Polish Underground
2. Escape from Communist Poland
3. CIA Years
4. Aftermath
5. Legal Battles
6. References


Polish Underground and Escape from Poland

Korczak was born in Vilnius, Polish-Lithuania[[1]], shortly before the start of World War II. As a teenager, he joined up with the Polish Underground who sought out, punished and killed Soviets and their Polish agents who were responsible for torturing, killing Polish political prisoners. His anti-Soviet activities landed him in prison for 3 years as “Enemy of the Polish People's Republic”, which was Communist at the time. After an attempted suicide and the infection that followed, he was released into his mother's custody as he was expected to die. His original sentence was death but due to his young age of 17 years, it was reduced to prison time. On Friday, October 13th, 1964, he escaped Communist Poland and fled to Denmark. That same year, the King of Denmark issued him the Status of Political Refugee.

CIA Years (1973-1979)

In 1973 Korczak began to work in Europe as an Access Agent for the Central Intelligence Agency. He was stationed in Copenhagen, Denmark with an Electronics Import/Export business as his front. Being multilingual, and fluent in Russian, made him a natural choice to infiltrate the KGB and became a Double Agent. By 1979, he had attained the rank of Major within the KGB.

In 1979 Korczak was exposed as a Double Agent. In November 1979, the October Revolution Celebration Reception was being held inside the Soviet Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. During this reception, Korczak's intoxicated Chief of Station (who was officially an American Diplomat) admitted that Korczak was spying for the CIA after being provoked by the KGB officer.

Aftermath

As soon as Korczak was exposed his life was in immediate danger. He contacted the CIA and notified them of the situation that he had been exposed and his life, and the lives of his family, was in mortal danger.

The response from the CIA was to “stay low.” After a few weeks of “staying low” Korczak hid his wife and daughter somewhere safe in Europe while he and his 7 year old son boarded a plane for the United States. Eventually the family was reunited some time later.

The CIA was of no help to Korczak and soon his visitor’s visa expired; he and his son were illegal aliens now. Not able to go back to Denmark and having the status of an illegal alien, Korczak ended up talking to the media. His first televised interview was on CNN with Daniel Schorr. Korczak explained how the CIA not only didn't want to honor their contract with him but were now denying that Korczak ever worked for them.

Korczak appeared next on Jack Anderson's show "Confidential". On the show, Charles Grassley of Iowa[2], said he investigated Korczak's claims and got confirmation from the CIA[1] that indeed Korczak had worked for them. This was further supported by a taped telephone conversation between Boris Korczak and Paul Shultz, of the CIA, in which Shultz reveals that the Agency had an agreement with Korczak.

Several years later Congressman James Traficant of Ohio did his own investigation about Korczak's case which resulted in [2].

Korczak's problems were far from over so he kept giving television and radio interviews with shows such as “The Tom Snyder Show[3],” and even “The Morton Downey Jr. Show”.

Assassination Attempt

In 1981 Korczak was shot with a poisonous pellet while shopping in Giant Food store in Vienna, Virginia. At the time he thought that a bee had stung him but three hours later he started becoming deathly ill. Hospital records indicate that his white blood cell count was four times the normal amount yet no infection could be detected.

Korczak's symptoms tormented him severely for several months. Shortly after being shot, Korczak felt as though he were passing a kidney stone and urinated through a coffee filter. This resulted in him finding a small blood clotted object. After closer inspection, it was revealed to be a cross-drilled platinum-irydium pellet, smaller than the head of a pin. The pellet was professionally photographed and shipped off to Scotland Yard.

It was then that Korczak understood that the assassination attempt on him was very similar to the infamous “Umbrella Shooting” of Georgi Markov. It was called “umbrella shooting” as a small air powered “gun” was built into an umbrella which was then used in the Markov assassination attempt.

Legal Battles

In 1996, Korczak filed a lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency for violating the terms of his contract, back pay with interest and for the pension he was promised once his work for the Agency was through.

The case was thrown out by the Federal Court of Claims when Government lawyers cited the “Totten Doctrine” which basically meant that the CIA was choosing not to be sued because State Secrets could end up in public domain if any such secret documents ended up being used as evidence in the court case.

The case was reported on by many foreign and domestic news outlets in print, television and radio media.

References

[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28]

References

  1. ^ confirmation from the CIA
  2. ^ confirmation of Korczak's claims
  3. ^ The Tom Snyder Show
  4. ^ Instructor's Manual, West's Business Law, Hollowell, Toby Miller
  5. ^ Toxin: the cunning of bacterial poisons, By Alistair J. Lax
  6. ^ Marquis Who's Who in World 1995
  7. ^ Marquis Who's Who in America 1996 – 2010
  8. ^ Marquis Who's Who in the South and Southwest 1993-1994
  9. ^ Moscow Station, Ronald Kessler 1990
  10. ^ Bioterrorism & Biocrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900
  11. ^ W. Seth Carus, 2002
  12. ^ America the Vulnerable, Joseph D. Douglass, Neil C. Livingstone - 1987
  13. ^ The ASA Newsletter
  14. ^ Defrauding America, Rodney Stich
  15. ^ Biological Weapons, By Sharad S. Chauhan
  16. ^ Terrorism Against America: External & Internal Terrorists By Rodney Stich
  17. ^ Microorganisms and bioterrorism, By Burt Anderson, Herman Friedman, Mauro Bendinelli
  18. ^ Handbook of pharmaceutical biotechnology, By Shayne C. Gad
  19. ^ Under Glass: The Girl with a Thousand Christmas Trees, By Jen Hirt
  20. ^ U.S. News & World Report, Volume 133, Issues 1-8
  21. ^ Antiterrorist initiatives, John B. Wolf-Plenum Press, 1989
  22. ^ Chemical and Biological Terrorism: new threat to public safety? Ronald G. Purver
  23. ^ The dictionary of espionage, Christopher Dobson, Ronald Payne – 1984
  24. ^ Armas QUIMICAS/ Chemical Weapons: La ciencia en manos del mal/ Science In, By René Pita
  25. ^ Biuletyn, Piłsudski Institute of America
  26. ^ Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 105th Congress, Second Session
  27. ^ Le terrorisme non conventionnel, Olivier Lepick, Jean-François Daguzan
  28. ^ The Killer Bean of Calabar and Other Stories: Poisons and poisoners, Peter Macinnis
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