2 Polish Reporters Jailed for Spying
Two Polish journalists have been jailed for spying for the United States and another unnamed Western country, government spokesman Jerzy Urban said Tuesday.
Mariusz Dastych, a former reporter for the government daily Rzeczpospolita, was jailed for eight years for supplying the CIA with information on Poland’s socio-political situation since 1973, Urban told a weekly news conference.
Tadeusz Podwysocki, who worked for the same newspaper, was jailed for 18 months and banned from working as a journalist for a further two years for working with Dastych in providing another Western intelligence service with information.
The two were sentenced at a closed trial in Warsaw on Monday, Urban said.
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