Counter-intelligence officers show how stupid they are

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http://www.wbj.pl/?command=article&id=40583

Warsaw Business Journal
28th March 2008

Six officers of the SKW, the new military counter-intelligence service, 
have uploaded photos of themselves while on a secret mission to 
Afghanistan onto their personal accounts at nasza-klasa.pl, the popular 
school reunion website.

Although they did not specify they worked for the SKW they made clear 
that the photos were taken during a military mission in Afghanistan. The 
pictures, which showed them sporting local robes as well as uniforms, 
attracted appreciative comments from their former school mates. The 
personal details of SKW officers are a closely guarded secret and are 
not even known to many Polish soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. "By 
doing such a thing, these people endangered themselves, the soldiers and 
their families," said General Marek Dukaczewski, the last head of WSI, 
SKW's predecessor, adding: "I cannot imagine a secret operation carried 
out by people whose names and faces can be seen on the internet." "I 
thought nothing could happen to heighten our sense of the chaos at the 
SKW. I was wrong," commented Paweł Graś, the former secret services 
minister. SKW was established in 2006. Antoni Macierewicz, its first 
head, was criticized for hiring inexperienced people and dismissing 
seasoned former WSE officers. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4) R.M.    

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