Walichnowski Tadeusz Adam
Walichnowski Tadeusz Adam (26 February 1928, Warsaw – 18 January 2005, Warsaw) – brigadier general in the Milicja Obywatelska (national police force), security services agent, political activist, lawyer, historian, political analyst.
He joined the Polish Workers’ Party in 1945 and was a member of the Polish United Workers’ Party since 1948 until its dissolution in 1990.
In 1967, he received his doctoral degree at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and in 1971, he completed his habilitation. In the years 1961–1965, he worked at the Polish embassy in Vienna as the head of intelligence, officially serving as the attaché and later the second secretary to the ambassador. In the years 1965–1967, he was the head of Department III in Division III of the Ministry of the Interior. As one of the leaders of the anti-Semitic faction, he was removed from the position. After 1970, he was an academic worker in the Polish Academy of Sciences (until 1976).
Among his works are: Zachodnioniemiecki rewizjonizm (“West German Revisionism,” Olsztyn 1961); Izrael a NRF (“Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany,” Warsaw 1967); Syjonizm a NRF (“Zionism and the Federal Republic of Germany,” Katowice 1968); Izrael–NRF a Polska (“The Israeli-West German Alliance and Poland,” Warsaw 1968); Mechanizm propagandy syjonistycznej (“The Mechanism of Zionist Propaganda,” Katowice 1968); Syjonizm a państwo żydowskie (“Zionism and the Jewish State,” Katowice 1968, series: The Doctrine of Zionism); Organizacje i działacze syjonistyczni (“Zionist Organisations and Activists,” Katowice 1968, series: The Doctrine of Zionism); Wokół agresji Izraela (“On the Aggression of Israel,” co-authored with Jan Dziedzic, Warsaw 1968), and Niepokój Polaków: doktryna polityczna Franza Josepha Straussa (“Polish Anxiety: the Political Doctrine of Franz Joseph Strauss,” Katowice 1969).
Bibliography:
Marzec 1968 w dokumentach MSW, vol. 1: Niepokorni, scientific supervision and preface by F. Dąbrowski, P. Gontarczyk, P. Tomasik, Warsaw 2008, p. 244–245.
Martyna Rusiniak-Karwat, Ph.D.
