Zbigniew SiemiÄ…tkowski

Zbigniew Siemiątkowski ( born October 8, 1957 in Ciechanów ) is a Polish politician. He was Interior Minister of Poland from 1996 to 1997 and from 2002 until April 2004 Chief of the Polish Foreign Intelligence Service Agencja Wywiadu (AW).

Life

Youth

From 1977 Siemiątkowski studied political science at the University of Warsaw. In 1981, he graduated with a Master's. In 1987 he received his doctorate in humanities.

From 1981 to 1991 he worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science from the University of Warsaw.

Policy

1978 Siemiątkowski joined the Polish United Workers' Party ( PZPR ). He was also a member of the successor party Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej ( SdRP ) and the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD).

He served in 1995 as a spokesman for the presidential campaign of Aleksander Kwasniewski. Later he was appointed Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President and Deputy Chief of the National Security Bureau.

From 1996 to 1997 he headed the Interior Ministry.

From 2001 to 2002 he was the acting head the intelligence service Urząd Ochrony Państwa.

News agency

2002 Siemiątkowski to the head of the Polish Foreign Intelligence Service Agencja Wywiadu (AW) was appointed. This office he filled until 2004.

2005, after an election defeat in the parliamentary elections, he retired from political life and returned to academic work at the University of Warsaw.

In March 2012, the Polish prosecutor him of illegal deprivation of liberty and assault accused. The allegations related to the so-called black sites, secret CIA prisons for imprisoning and interrogations of unlawful combatants, in Poland.

Family

Siemiątkowski is married.