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07.01.2007
Polish Ex-Spy: "Was My Son Poisoned in England?"
AIA
Mariusz David Dastych (65) was the Polish intelligence
agent in the 1960s-1980s, and since 1973 – also a
double CIA agent. He was then working in Eastern
Europe, in the USA, Vietnam, and China. Dastych was
arrested in 1987 by the Polish counterintelligence on
the charges of espionage for American and Japanese
secret services. He was released from prison in 1990,
after fall of the Communist regime in Poland. In the
following years he was voluntarily cooperating with
several western intelligence services in the framework
of monitoring the illegal nuclear trade in Eastern
Europe and in the Middle East. After he was severely
injured in France in 1994, Dastych started his
David Dastych and his journalistic and research work, specializing in different
son Olaf aspects of world secret services’ activity, terrorism,
and organized crime. He participated as an editor in
publishing of a number of well-known books dealing with the intelligence issue,
including the book named “Gideon Spies. The Secret History of the Mossad”. He
currently continues keeping in touch with many former and active secret
servicemen in the USA, in Western and Eastern Europe, in the Middle and the
Far East.
In light of the investigation of ex-FSB colonel Alexander Litvinenko’s murder in
London in November 2006, David Dastych sent AIA his article about mysterious
death of his son in Great Britain ten years ago. Following is this article by David
Dastych.

In mid-December, at 04:00 a.m., I received a sudden phone call: “Your son, Olaf, died
tonight.” It was a terrible shock. “Could that be real?”, I thought in the first moment, still
emerging from a sound sleep. “Maybe this was a bad dream?” But it wasn’t. I called
my ex-wife, Kalina, and she burst into tears. “How did it happen?, ”I asked her. And
she told me about the sudden death of our son, witnessed by Agnes, his fiancée. It
took only a few minutes, and an emergency team arrived very soon, but nothing could
be done. Olaf died almost at once. How this could happen to a young, active and full of
vigor man of 24? Nobody could explain. Doctors claimed it was a very strong infarct,
but they were not sure. Agnes told us, he died in her arms. She was deeply shocked,
and so we all were.
There was no autopsy made on the body. Olaf’s mother refused it. The funeral was
arranged on the fifth day, with a crowd of people attending and Olaf’s friends playing
music for him in the funeral house. It was a frosty winter, and a new part of the huge
Northern Graveyard in Warsaw, still bare, with almost no trees and bushes, resembled
a snow-covered field in Siberia.

Homecoming from Bradford

Olaf Dastych graduated with honors from the Warsaw Higher Economic School (SGH)
in 1996. A day after his graduation ceremony, he went to England, where he was
granted a scholarship for the MBA studies at the Bradford University. This was not his
first term abroad, as he had a chance to study in Denmark before. But this time he

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