Poland’s new conservative government Friday continued a controversial drive to replace senior officials with its own appointees when it raided a NATO counter-espionage center in Warsaw and fired its senior staff.
Colonel Krzysztof Dusza, the sacked head of the Counter Intelligence Center of Excellence, said defense ministry officials and military police raided the joint Polish-Slovak center in the early hours of Friday.
“I told them their presence here was illegal. When they left, I asked the police to put seals on the door,” Dusza told public television, adding he had informed Slovakia “and other foreign partners”.
The defense ministry issued a terse statement on the incident, saying only that it had installed a new interim director, Colonel Robert Bala.