The Untold Story of OSS Agent Steve Bizic | Jacek Waliszewski | Ep. 330

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🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Jacek was three months old when he committed his first crime - sneaking Solidarity paperwork in his diaper to Polish resistance leaders. You see, His Dad cofounded Solidarity and spent a year in jail. He was then given an offer from the Commies: "Leave the country as political refugees, go back to jail, or be traded out to the Soviets." He chose America, and his parrents arrived with two suitcases, two toddlers (Jacek and his Sister), and no one spoke any English. They had a few dollars, his dad worked as a painter during the day and computer repairman at night, and his mom cleaned houses while the kids stayed home with friends. Years later, and despite the odds, they made it. Jacek (Yacht-sek) is now a Dad, a writer, and Green Beret US Army Special Forces Warrant Officer. He's travelled to over 40 countries, run with the Bulls in Pamplona, and had incredible adventures. His last Spcecial Forces Mission to Afghanistan was captured in the Award-winning National Geographic Documentary RETROGRADE, which was nominated for 6 Emmys and made it on the Oscar Short List, and Jacek is featured as "Chief Jack."
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0:00.0	CIA comes out in 1947 and says, hey, all OSS missions are secret top secret.
0:04.8	Like, stop with your memoirs.
0:06.7	But these guys had already written it.
0:08.3	And so this physical book ends up in under the bed or in the closet for the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years until I find it in 2017 in the archives.
0:19.6	No one knows how it got to the archives. And so I'm
0:22.2	starting reading it. I'm reading it in Afghanistan as the country's collapsing. And then I spent
0:27.7	21, 22, 23, finding the families, bringing them together, asking for photos, asking for
0:36.3	stories.
0:42.1	What's freaking insane is that I ended up looking through the British National Archives and I found the Morse code messages that Spike was sending to OSS headquarters.
0:47.3	So like, you're reading this and you're like, oh yeah, we blew up a bridge.
0:50.5	And 200 Germans died when the train fell up into the gorge.
0:54.8	And you're like, oh, that's a great whiskey campfire story.
0:58.4	But then I find the actual Morse code message that say, hey, we blew up a bridge and 200 Germans died and it was amazing.
1:03.8	You're like, oh my God, this proves that the memoir is true.
1:07.3	Right.
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