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460 Document No. 84: Communication from Czesław Kiszczak to Florian Siwicki December 12, 1981 This concise document is a formal request from Minister of Internal Affairs Kiszczak to Defense Minister Siwicki to have the military be prepared to cut off radio and telephone communications as a first step in implementing martial law. Chief of general Staff of the PA Comrade gen. Florian Siwicki I kindly request that the order be issued for the armed forces to be prepared to execute operation “Azalea” on December 12 at 23:30. In this connection, the concerned commanders of military units are requested to contact appropriate voivodeship commandants of the Citizens’ Police. gen. of Div. Czesław Kiszczak […] [Source: Jan Draus and Zbigniew Nawrocki, op. cit., p. 133. Translated by Malcolm Byrne for the National Security Archive.] ...

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