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New Polish Government Appoints New Heads of Security, Intelligence, and Anti-Corruption

Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Pro-European Union Government Begins Reversing Previous Administration's Policies

  • Poland's new Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, has appointed new heads of state security, intelligence and anti-corruption offices.
  • Two of the new appointees are women: Col. Dorota Gawecka, the new head of military intelligence, and Agnieszka Kwiatkowska-Gurdak, the new Central Anti-Corruption Bureau chief.
  • Col. Rafal Syrysko, with over 30 years of experience in counterintelligence and internal security, is the new head of the Internal Security Agency.
  • Col. Pawel Szot is the new head of intelligence and Gen. Jaroslaw Strozyk, also with over 30 years of experience, is the new military counterintelligence chief.
  • Tusk's coalition government took office last week and has begun reversing policies of the previous administration that many in Poland found divisive.
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