Jarmuszkiewicz replaces Piotr Krawczyk, who resigned last week, citing personal reasons, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Stanisław Żaryn, the spokesman for Poland’s security services, said in an English-language statement on Monday that Jarmuszkiewicz “is an officer with experience as an operative gained over many years of his service.”
Żaryn added that Poland’s new intelligence chief “is a graduate of an officer course for the intelligence officers held in the Centre of Excellence for the Intelligence Staff in Stare Kiejkuty.”
The statement went on to say: “His service – first in the Office for State Protection (UOP) and then in the Internal Security Agency (ABW) – started in 1997. Since the very beginning of his career Col. Jarmuszkiewicz has been dealing with operative work.”
Over the years, Jarmuszkiewicz "has held different mid-level and high-level management positions both in the field and in the ABW’s Headquarters,” Żaryn also said.
Jarmuszkiewicz previously served as deputy head of the ABW, starting from May 20, 2020, where "his tasks included, among other things, exercising oversight over the Department of Counter-Intelligence," according to Żaryn.
Jarmuszkiewicz "actively cooperated with intelligence and counter-intelligence of the allied secret services,” Żaryn said in his statement.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, gov.pl