Journalist release list with more than 200,000 names of Communist spies

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=wildstein+list ^

[uiapuru]

A list of 240,000 names of Polish secret agents, informers, secret service employees, and victims of persecution was leaked on the internet in the last days and became an instant hit. The search for "lista Wildsteina" (Wildstein's list) sky-rocketed to 300,000 per day in the second most popular search engine in Poland (onet.pl) outperforming "sex" (former top query) by more than 30 times. The list appeared on many web sites, p2p networks, and was made into a searchable database. There are worries the list might contain names of active security agents, still working abroad. Google news has more coverage.

The list: http://lista.gpv.pl/

Google News: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=wildstein+list

[Thebaddog]

I saw a show in Discovery Times last night about the Soviet penetration of the US government in Truman's era that reminds me of this list. The Venona Project broke the Soviet codes and it was mind boggling how many agents there were in Washington. I recall the comment that there were so many spies in the Treasury Department that they stopped recruiting them because they were bumping into each other.

[kizzdogg]

Anybody know of anybody interesting on that list?

[xJones]

A list of 240,000 names of Polish secret agents, informers, secret service employees, and victims of persecution

Wow. The victims of persecution are okay, but the rest are in BIG trouble, if only from their friends and neighbors.

[StACase]

With any luck our spooks have such a list for alqæda operatives and has been quietly having them disappear. After all, the 2nd shoe hasn't dropped.

[SauronOfMordor]

I recall the comment that there were so many spies in the Treasury Department that they stopped recruiting them because they were bumping into each other.

And the Secret Service, bodyguards of the President, is part of the Treasury Dept

[blackeagle]

bump

[Thebaddog]

My sense of the show was that the spies were everywhere. How we won the cold war is purely Reagan. I don't think that the federal government was ever in it to win.

[Blowtorch]

But I thought McCarthy was dead...

[Calpernia]

>>> The Venona Project broke the Soviet codes and it was mind boggling how many agents there were in Washington.

[Calpernia]

ping

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[Calpernia]

I ran http://lista.gpv.pl/ through a translator. Still not too comprehensive.


http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?type=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Flista.gpv.pl&text=&from=pol&to=eng

[Cindy]

Thanks Calpernia for the ping.

[Calpernia]

If you click through to the alphabetic listings, all the names are there for your links of interest.

[Fedora]

Thank you!!! :-)

[quietolong]

Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,.....Or... Joe McCarthy was more right than he ever knew
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/622675/posts

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Grzegorz 246]

The only interesting thing is alphabetic list in the middle of the page.