WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Poland's prime minister fired the head of the counter-intelligence service for allegedly secretly moving military intelligence files to the presidential office.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk relieved Andrzej Kowalski of his duties as the head of the counter-intelligence service on the recommendation of Defense Minister Bogdan Klich, the Warsaw Voice Online reported Wednesday.
The files' secret transfer of the military intelligence service from the Defense Ministry to President Lech Kaczynski's offices was allegedly undertaken before Tusk's newly appointed government was sworn in Friday.
Officials of the pro-EU coalition government of Tusk's Civic Platform, which won general elections Oct. 21, suspect that the former government of Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin bother of the president, would use the files for their own and purposes of their Law and Justice party, the Warsaw Voice said.
Klich told the Gazeta Wyborza daily he learned late Monday that it was Kowalski who supervised the military files transfer from the Defense Ministry to the National Security office, which reports directly to President Lech Kaczynski, whose tenure expires in 2010.
