Last night I drove down to Books & Books in Coral Gables to attend my first post-pandemic book reading. John Pomfret, former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, talked about his new book From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance. There were about 20 people in attendance, many with connections to Poland. (The event was sponsored by Miami’s American Institute of Polish Culture.) And most of the questions were not about the subject of the book, intelligence cooperation between the U.S. and Poland with regard to Iraq, but about the current situation in Poland and Ukraine. Afterwards, I spoke with a young woman from Rzeszow, who said her parents have been helping refugees. “But they all want to go to the big cities,” she said. “We’re in the countryside, and there’s no work for them there.”
