On the Scene: From Journalist to Spy Chief

HOW DO you transform an organization that for half a century had been the arm of a foreign power into a loyal and effective security force? That is the task before Krzysztof Kozlowski, Poland’s new interior minister and boss of the newly formed Office of State Security.

Kozlowski’s only previous experience with security services was occasional interrogations by officers overseeing the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, on which he was a senior staff writer for thirty years. It’s as if the task of overhauling the CIA, the FBI, and the Justice Department were given to George Will.

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HOW DO you transform an organization that for half a century had been the arm of a foreign power into a loyal and effective security force? That is the task before Krzysztof Kozlowski, Poland’s new interior minister and boss of the newly formed Office of State Security.

Kozlowski’s only previous experience with security services was occasional interrogations by officers overseeing the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, on which he was a senior staff writer for thirty years. It’s as if the task of overhauling the CIA, the FBI, and the Justice Department were given to George Will.