Who Done It???

Mysterious death of General Sikorski solved?
thenews.pl
07.07.2008

A Polish historian, Dariusz Baliszewski, claims that General Wladyslaw Sikorski was murdered in 1943 by Poles acting under supervision of the British.

General Wladyslaw Sikorski was the Prime Minister of Poland's London-based government in exile and Commander-in- Chief of her armed forces during WWII, who died when his plane suddenly dropped into the Straights of Gibraltar moments after take off.

Last week the Archbishop of Krakow - where Sikorski's body is buried - gave his consent to exhume the remains to ascertain the cause of death.

Historian Baliszewski, who has investigated General Sikorski's death for 15 years, told the TVN24 news station on Sunday that he was murdered in Gibraltar by a Polish assassination squad acting under the supervision of the British.

"According to my materials, the General was strangled. He was found dead wearing only his underwear. He was probably having a siesta. [...] An examination of his body by five people in July 1943 showed that there were no injuries to his face, but it was a brown colour," the historian told TVN24.

Baliszewski said he had studied a group of 95 Poles who were staying in Gibraltar at the time of Sikorski's death. A group of Polish commandoes, supervised and trained to kill by the English, were among them.

The historian suggested that the Polish assassins were motivated by patriotism and acted on the belief that the killing of General Sikorski would be for the good of their country.

Baliszewski also said he believed that the Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz's approval last week to exhume the body would help establish the true cause of his death.

Officially, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Prime Minister of Poland's London-based government in exile and Commander-in- Chief of her armed forces, died in a plane crash in mysterious circumstances on take-off from Gibraltar for England on July 4, 1943. Soon after take-off, the aircraft suddenly lost height and crashed into the harbour.

Many have speculated that Sikorski had become a thorn in the side of the British in their attempt to strengthen their alliance with Stalin.