Special services subordinated to Donald Tusk’s government – led by the deputy head of the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW), Col. Krzysztof Dusza, known from the era of the “reset” and his close contacts with Russia’s FSB – are exerting unprecedented pressure on the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. The goal is to undermine the status of the head of the National Security Bureau, Prof. Sławomir Cenckiewicz. According to information obtained by our editorial team, the services are attempting to push the narrative that the head of BBN lacks valid security clearances – a claim in direct contradiction with a recent court ruling.
Niezalezna‘s findings, based on official responses from the Chancellery of the President, reveal a coordinated action aimed at one of the country’s key officials. At the end of last week, two letters reached the BBN, which the Chancellery of the President described in response to questions from the portal Niezalezna.pl:
“At the end of last week, two official letters from the special services were sent to the management of the National Security Bureau. One from the Military Counterintelligence Service, signed by the Deputy Head of SKW, Col. Krzysztof Dusza. The other from the Internal Security Agency (ABW), signed by the head of this service, Col. Rafał Syrysko. Both letters present positions that are inconsistent with each other, but also contrary to the actual and legal state of affairs, claiming that the Head of BBN, Prof. Sławomir Cenckiewicz, does not possess valid security clearances.”
The attempt to challenge Prof. Cenckiewicz’s credentials is all the more astonishing since the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw, on June 17, 2025, overturned the decisions of the SKW and Prime Minister Donald Tusk to revoke his clearances. In eight rulings, the court delivered a crushing assessment of the services’ actions, pointing to a “violation of substantive law” and the absence of any basis for claiming that Prof. Cenckiewicz could not be trusted with state secrets.
What we are seeing, therefore, is pressure from the special services on the President’s Chancellery, undertaken in defiance of a court ruling. The actions initiated by the SKW and ABW appear to be an attempt to paralyze the National Security Bureau and eliminate from public life a historian who has, for years, exposed Russian influence in Poland.
A particularly important role in these current pressures is played by – significantly – Col. Krzysztof Dusza, a symbolic figure of the “reset” policy with Russia. He was one of the main negotiators of the scandalous cooperation agreement between the Military Counterintelligence Service and Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) during the era of the “reset” with Russia. Gazeta Polska and the authors of the film Reset – Prof. Sławomir Cenckiewicz and Michał Rachoń – revealed numerous facts proving the close relations and meetings of SKW officers with representatives of the Russian services, which took place both in Poland and in Russia. Col. Dusza’s actions at that time raised concerns even among NATO allies and, according to media reports, because of his contacts with the FSB, the Americans allegedly pressured for his dismissal from SKW. Krzysztof Dusza was, let us recall, among the participants of a vodka-fueled feast with FSB officers in Kadyny.