Spy ‘reported on New Zealanders’

Press, 3 February 1982, Page 10

Spy ‘reported on New Zealanders’

NZPA Warsaw Polish television has said that people from New Zealand were among those that a C.I.A. spy had been ordered to report bn. A programme called “Who is Who” outlined the case of Miss Alicjy Wesolowska, the United Nations employee who was arrested while visiting her family in 1979 and sentenced to seven years in prison after a closed trial in March, 1980. She had been charged with spying for an unnamed N.A.T.O. power. Since then the United Nations has made several appeals for Miss Wesolowska’s release and she is

said to have been on a hunger strike. 1 The programme, an appar- • ent response to United States t aid sanctions and propa--1 ganda against Poland since the imposition of martial > law, is designed to prove f alleged United States > espionage activities in !. Poland over the past few years. I It showed Miss Wesoi lowska being interviewed i and said that she had signed i a work “contract” in 1974 i that led to contacts with the C.I.A. It said that she used I the code name “Victoria” for i her reports. The programme also said that she held receptions in — New York at the behest of the C.I.A. and reported to them on people from New Zealand, Italy, France, West Germany, Asia, and Africa. g It said that she was also detailed to watch the then United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr Andrew Young.