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20 December 2025

KATOWICE, POLAND – DECEMBER 16: Slawomir Cenckiewicz, head of Poland’s National Security Bureau (BBN) and a noted historian of communist‑era security services, attends a Mass at the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross during ceremonies commemorating the 44th anniversary of the 1981 pacification of the Wujek coal mine, in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on December 16, 2025. In December 1981, following the imposition of martial law in communist Poland, security forces opened fire on striking miners at Wujek, killing nine and injuring several others.

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20 December 2025

KATOWICE, POLAND – DECEMBER 16: Sławomir Cenckiewicz, head of Poland’s National Security Bureau (BBN) and a noted historian of communist‑era security services, attends a Mass at the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross during ceremonies commemorating the 44th anniversary of the 1981 pacification of the Wujek coal mine, in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on December 16, 2025. In December 1981, following the imposition of martial law in communist Poland, security forces opened fire on striking miners at Wujek, killing nine and injuring several others.

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20 December 2025

KATOWICE, POLAND – DECEMBER 16: Slawomir Cenckiewicz, head of the National Security Bureau, attends a ceremony at the Cross Memorial outside the 'Wujek' coal mine, marking the 44th anniversary of the mine’s pacification, in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on December 16, 2025. In December 1981, following the imposition of martial law in communist Poland, security forces opened fire on striking miners at Wujek, killing nine and wounding several others.

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18 December 2025

In Katowice, Poland, on December 16, 2025, Slawomir Cenckiewicz, head of the National Security Bureau, attends a Mass in the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross during the commemoration of the 44th anniversary of the Pacification of the 'Wujek' Mine. On December 16, 1981, in Katowice, striking miners at the 'Wujek' coal mine are violently suppressed by units of ZOMO acting under orders issued by Wojciech Jaruzelski. As a result of these actions, six miners are killed at the scene, three others later die in hospital, and 23 are injured. These events bring the strike at the mine to an end.

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17 December 2025

KATOWICE, POLAND – DECEMBER 16: Slawomir Cenckiewicz (L), Head of the National Security Bureau, attends a Mass at the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross during ceremonies commemorating the 44th anniversary of the 1981 pacification of the 'Wujek coal mine,' in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on December 16, 2025. In December 1981, during the introduction of martial law in communist Poland, security forces opened fire on striking miners at the 'Wujek' mine, killing nine workers and injuring many others.

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17 December 2025

KATOWICE, POLAND – DECEMBER 16: Slawomir Cenckiewicz, Head of the National Security Bureau, attends a Mass at the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross during ceremonies commemorating the 44th anniversary of the 1981 pacification of the 'Wujek coal mine,' in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on December 16, 2025. In December 1981, during the introduction of martial law in communist Poland, security forces opened fire on striking miners at the 'Wujek' mine, killing nine workers and injuring many others.

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17 December 2025

KATOWICE, POLAND – DECEMBER 16: Slawomir Cenckiewicz, head of the National Security Bureau, attends a ceremony at the Cross Memorial outside the Wujek coal mine, marking the 44th anniversary of the mine’s pacification, in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on December 16, 2025. In December 1981, following the imposition of martial law in communist Poland, security forces opened fire on striking miners at Wujek, killing nine and wounding several others.

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22 November 2025

Slawomir Cenckiewicz, Head of the National Security Bureau, is seen during the PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa match between Legia Warszawa and Lechia Gdansk at the Marshal Jozef Pilsudski Municipal Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, on November 22, 2025.

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11 September 2025

From left to right, Zbigniew Bogucki, the Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Poland's President Karol Nawrocki, and Slawomir Cenckiewicz, Head of the National Security Bureau, take part in the National Security Council meeting following violations of Polish airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine in Warsaw, Poland, on September 11, 2025.

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11 September 2025

From left to right, Zbigniew Bogucki, the Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Poland's President Karol Nawrocki, and Slawomir Cenckiewicz, Head of the National Security Bureau, take part in the National Security Council meeting following violations of Polish airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine in Warsaw, Poland, on September 11, 2025.

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11 September 2025

From left to right, Zbigniew Bogucki, the Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Poland's President Karol Nawrocki, and Slawomir Cenckiewicz, Head of the National Security Bureau, take part in the National Security Council meeting following violations of Polish airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine in Warsaw, Poland, on September 11, 2025.

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11 September 2025

From left to right, Zbigniew Bogucki, the Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Poland's President Karol Nawrocki, and Slawomir Cenckiewicz, Head of the National Security Bureau, take part in the National Security Council meeting following violations of Polish airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine in Warsaw, Poland, on September 11, 2025.

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10 September 2025

GDANSK, POLAND – SEPTEMBER 1: Polish President Karol Nawrocki (R), with Slawomir Cenckiewicz (L), Head of the National Security Bureau, are seen during a ceremony commemorating the 86th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II on the Westerplatte peninsula in Gdansk, Poland, on September 1, 2025.

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10 September 2025

GDANSK, POLAND – SEPTEMBER 1: Slawomir Cenckiewicz (C), Head of the National Security Bureau, is seen during a ceremony commemorating the 86th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II on the Westerplatte peninsula in Gdansk, Poland, on September 1, 2025.

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#12737181

10 September 2025

GDANSK, POLAND – SEPTEMBER 1: Polish President Karol Nawrocki (C), Slawomir Cenckiewicz (L), Head of the National Security Bureau, and Szymon Holownia (R), Marshal of the Polish Sejm, during a ceremony commemorating the 86th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II on the Westerplatte peninsula in Gdansk, Poland, on September 1, 2025.

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#12737157

10 September 2025

GDANSK, POLAND – SEPTEMBER 1: Lieutenant General Karol Dymanowski (2L), First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, is seen next to Slawomir Cenckiewicz (2R) (R), Head of the National Security Bureau, during a ceremony commemorating the 86th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II on the Westerplatte peninsula in Gdansk, Poland, on September 1, 2025.

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