Dear professor
Andrew
I am private researcher and publicist working on Polish Martial Law
documents. I am working in cooperation with Jagiellonian University in
Krakow and Institute of National Memory gathering top Polish
historians working on Martial law subject like professor Dudek or
professor Paczkowski.
I am writing you because of the fact that Polish debate found itself
in a stalemate. One of the hotpoints of the debate is so called
"Anoshkin notepad" - I do not know if Mr Professor heard about it. In
1997 there was a conference involving all the parties of Martial Law
including general Jaruzelski and marshall Kulikov. General Anoshkin
was Kulikov's adjutant and during the conference his private diary was
shown for the first time. The diary presents general Anoshkin's from
the meetings that occured in December 1981 with Polish HQ including
Jaruzelski and Siwicki.
However the authenticity of the diary has been challenged. It has been
noticed that it was not features of typical military document: there
is no military template, no notes numbering etc. It resembles rather
private diary and that is why it is challenged.
But when compared with your book "Mitrokhin's Archive" it seems that
this notepad is fully compatible. Especially when it comes to events
which happened at night of December 8th/9th when general Jaruzelski
and Siwicki met Marshall Kulikov.
In your book you are refering to a note marked "k-20, 327". It is very
crucial note for Martial Law researchers.
Here I am getting to the point of my letter, I would like to ask: Is
it possible to see and publish the original note of Mitrokihn Archive
including the date and all its content? It will drive the historical
debate out of the stalemate. The full text can confirm the events of
that night which is denied by general Jaruzelski, Siwicki. They are
denying the fact they had ever asked for Soviet military intervention.
My question is also relevant to the other Mitrokhin notes regarding
this topic, for example Milewski's reports to Warsaw's KGB (k-20,
308).
Please advice how it is possible to have a query refering to the
Archive. I am consious it might be not so easy but please advice what
is the legal entity that should be asked for. The documents can move
scientific debate forward and of course I would like to share them
with Polish Acadamy of Science, Polish Jagiellonionan University and
Institute of National Memory.
Yours truly