Daniel Passent is a Polish journalist and writer of Jewish descent. He is an author of a blog "En passant" which appears as a column in a Polish weekly Polityka. He was married to Agnieszka Osiecka and their daughter is Agata Passent. In addition to his articles and columns, Passent wrote several books, among others about the Vietnam War, the Olympic Summer Games 1972 in Munich, about the drug problem in the USA, and about the world class Polish tennis player, Wojciech Fibak. He also translated books and other texts by James Baldwin and Martin Luther King into Polish. He speaks Polish, English, German, Spanish, and Russian. An article in a conservative Polish newspaper Dziennik, claimed that Passent worked in the 1960s as a spy for the communist government under the code names "Daniel" and "John". Passent asked an independent court to review such claims through a procedure called lustration; this request was denied[2] as Poland's lustration law applies only to people holding (or running for) a public office. Source: wikipedia.com