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Poland says no NATO secrets leaked in Kaczynski crash

© RIA Novosti . Oleg Mineev / Go to the mediabank"The above-mentioned president's phone was a simple satellite phone"
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There were no NATO sensitive data or devices on board the Polish president's plane that crashed in April near west Russia's Smolensk.

There were no NATO sensitive data or devices on board the Polish president's plane that crashed in April near west Russia's Smolensk, a top Polish military counterintelligence official has said.

A Soviet-made Tu-154 aircraft crashed on April 10 when it attempted to land in thick fog, killing all 96 people on board, including President Kaczynski and other top state officials.

"There was a satellite phone on board the Tu-154 plane, but there were no 'secret codes,' devices or cryptographic materials," said Col. Colonel Krzysztof Dusza, head of Poland's Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW).

"The above-mentioned president's phone was a simple satellite phone," he told reporters on Saturday.

Concerns have emerged with media suggestions that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) could have intercepted sensitive documents and data carriers, such as laptops and flash drives, immediately after the crash.

The Polish official called these unconfirmed media reports "pure speculations."

Russian and Polish investigators and experts are jointly investigating the causes of the deadly crash, while Polish military prosecutors are conducting their own investigation.

 

WARSAW, May 16 (RIA Novosti)

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