Brigadier General Krzysztof Bondaryk
HEAD OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY AGENCY
He was born in 1959 in Białystok.
He graduated from the Warsaw University branch in Białystok with a master’s degree in history. In the 1980’s he was an activist of the Independent Student Association [NZS] and one of the organizers of the Białystok Regional Committee for the Defence of the Imprisoned for Beliefs. In the period of the martial law he was active in the underground organizations, NZS and the Solidarity Independent Self-Governing Trade Union [NSZZ „Solidarność”] as a printer, distributor, and editor of independent magazines. He worked as a teacher. In the period between 1988 and 1990 he was an assistant at the History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
The Minister of the Interior, senator Krzysztof Kozłowski, appointed Mr. Bondaryk to the position of the Minister’s Plenipotentiary for the Establishment of the State Protection Office [UOP] in Białystok.
In the period between 1990 and 1996 Mr. Bondaryk was the Director of the UOP Field Office in Białystok. From the year 1997 to 1998 he worked as the Vice-Director and Director of the Department for Supervision and Control at the Ministry of Interior.
In the fall of 1998 Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek appointed him to the position of the Government Delegate for the System Reform Implementation in the Greater Poland Province.
In the period between 1998 and 1999 he was the Vice-Minister of the Interior responsible for the introduction of the Classified Information Protection Act as well as the National Centre of Criminal Information.
After having left the public service in 2001, he worked in the telecommunications and banking sector. From the year 2006 to 2007 he was an expert of the Sejm Committee for the Special Services.
On the 16th of November 2007 he was appointed to the position of the Acting Head of the Internal Security Agency.
From the 16th of January 2008 - Head of the Internal Security Agency.
In 1998 he received a badge of merit of the Białystok region. In 1993 he was decorated with the Gold Cross of Merit, and in 1999, the Bronze Medal of Merit for the Country’s Defences.
Mr Bondaryk is married and has two children.
He is interested in the recent history and angling.
Our mission
- Our Mission The Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (Internal Security Agency) is a government institution which, under Polish law, is responsible for the internal security of the Republic of Poland.
- Annual report 2009 We are presenting to you an unclassified report on the activities of the Internal Security Agency in 2009. We are convinced that it will draw your interest and that you will find the enclosed material a source of reliable information about the Agency and its role and accomplishments.
