From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikel

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10 March, 2022

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A Conversation with John Pomfret Spanning decades and continents, From Warsaw with Love recounts the remarkable story of how Poland helped the CIA rescue from Iraq six US operatives involved with Operation Desert Storm. John Pomfret’s account of the 1990 cliffhanger in Iraq is just the beginning of a tale about intelligence cooperation between Poland and the United States, cooperation that one CIA director would later describe as “one of the two foremost intelligence relationships that the United States has ever had.” Pomfret uncovers new details about the CIA’s black site program that held suspected terrorists in Poland after 9/11 as well as the role of Polish spies in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Pomfret’s book tells a distressing and disquieting tale of moral ambiguity in which right and wrong, black and white, are not conveniently distinguishable. As the United States teeters on the edge of a new cold war with Russia and China, Pomfret explores how these little-known events serve as a reminder of the importance of alliances in a dangerous world. Guest Speaker John Pomfret, Journalist and Author. Raised in New York City and educated at Stanford and Nanjing universities, Pomfret is an award-winning journalist who has worked with the Washington Post for several decades. He has been a foreign correspondent for 20 years and spent eight years covering conflicts in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Sri Lanka and Iraq. He has also spent decades covering China. He is the author of Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China (1996) and The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present (2016), which was awarded the 2017 Arthur Ross Award by the Council on Foreign Relations. Co-sponsors American Institute of Polish Culture Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Miami Books and Books