WARSAW (Sputnik) — Poland’s Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski denied on Monday his undersecretary Robert Grey was sacked for hushing up his former ties to US secret services, in an interview with Polish media.
Grey was promoted to the undersecretary of state in late September, after working at the Foreign Ministry since May. He was fired a month later for unclear reasons, while the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper said Grey, a former US resident, had concealed his ties to US spy agencies.
"I know nothing of these ties. Undersecretary Grey had been screened [by domestic security and counter-intelligence agencies] and no one questioned this [his trustworthiness]," Waszczykowski told the DoRzeczy weekly.
Robert Grey was born in Poland and moved to his father living in the United States when he was still a child. He returned to Poland in 2010 and became an adviser to the foreign minister six years later.
