The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

vance of the Red Armies across Po- land. This fact alone makes his de- tention by the Russians all the more incomprehensible.
 Ockulicki was colonel in the Po- fish Army when the war broke. out in 1889. He fought the Germans until the last, then surrendered as prisoner of war to the Russians. He was released in 1941 after the Stalin-Sikorski pact of mutual friendship, and was evacuated with the Polish armies to the Middle East. When these Polish units were transferred to the Italian front, Ockulicki went along as Chief of Staff, staying in that post until he was ordered to London early in 1914 as deputy to General Bor, com- mander of the Home Army, as the Polish underground forces were off, cially designated.
 PARACHUTED TO POLAND
 Though General Ockulicki was a man of 50 he took training as par achutist with Polish forces in Scot land. He was dropped from a plane over Polish territory, where he took command of Home Army detach- ments in the face of retreating Ger mans and the on-coming Russians.
 In July, 1914, General Ockluciki sent one of his aides to Washington to confer with the combined Chiefs of Staff. This aide was known in Washington as General Tabor.
 Though he was kept closely under the wraps of military security at the time, it can now be revealed that this General Tabor brought with him outlines for 8 plan to coordin- ate the operations of the Polish Underground Army with the armies of General Eisenhower in western Europe. It was the plan of General Ockulicki that the Polish Home Army. operating through Polish slave labor in Poland, Germany and Belgium, could disrupt the east-weSt lateral communication lines in these three countries so that the Wehr- macht could not move it's dwindling reserves from one front to the other. To carry out this plan, General Ockulicki said he would need cer- tain supplies of special weapons and explosives dropped to him by the parachute supply line.
 The plan was communicated to the Russians through Soviet mili- tary attaches in Washington. The plan is believed to have been turned down by the Russians on the grounds that the Red Army did not want the Poles to be supplied with any arms whatever.
 In spite of this setback, General Ockulicki kept up his campaign of underground disruption of the Ger man war effort and aid to the Rus sians. In August the Warsaw up- rising was ordered. Theoretically it was to be coordinated with and re- lieved by the advances of the Red Army. Though the uprising was continued for 63 days, Russian re- lief was not forthcoming. On Oc- tober 3, General Bor was captured ito be liberated from a German prison camp only a few days ago.
 UNDERGROUND DISBANDED
 General Ockulicki went into hid- ing with the politcial leaders. Early in February he radioed the London Polish Government that flor basic political reasons" it would be nec- essary to disband the Home Army. Not questioning the advice of its top military leader in Poland, the order was issued and effective resistance of the Polish underground prac- tically ceased. Ockulicki himself stayed underground until March Is when his identity was disclosed to the Russians and he was persuaded to come out into the open to cooper ate with the Russians in setting up new government. That led to his trip to Russia presumably en route to London = with the 15 po- litical leaders six weeks later.
 His forced detention by the Soviet Government was confirmed by For eign Commissar Molotov at San Francisco.