Award-winning journalist and writer for the Washington Post -- spanning over several decades, John Pomfret converses about his book “From Warsaw with Love”. Pomfret’s publication is a portrait of an unlikely and largely secretive relationship between Americans and Poles, spanning dozens of operations ranging from daring rescue missions to a “black site” prison for suspected terrorists.
As a correspondent for the Washington Post in Poland, Pomfret broke a strange story about Polish Intelligence Officers taking six American officers both military and intelligence, out of Iraq. Over the subsequent years he was fascinated by the idea of writing a broader story on how that operation jump-started an incredibly close alliance between Washington and Warsaw. Listen in, as John Pomfret who was based in Warsaw, Vienna, and Sarajevo examines this unfamiliar story on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.