Career
In the Polish People"s Republic he was a political hack writer for the Communist Sztandar Ludu newspaper, specializing in rural issues concerning the farming industry and the animal husbandry. Although focused on historical events and modern controversies, his books are usually not referenced. Coming from a peasant family living in the back country, Pająk nevertheless went on to study philology at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in the city.
In 1965, he founded a poets association in 1965 called "Prom".
In 1969, he compiled Henryk Cybulski"s memoirs, Czerwone noce (Red nights) about Przebraże Defence, the self-defence of Poles against the Ukrainian Universal Postal Union. Pająk wrote then a novel based on this subject matter, Los (Fate) in 1969. He also headed the Lublin"s section of the Polish union of writers (Związek Literatów Polskich).
Since, he has written many books, such as a book about the Polish communist regime in 1997 (Rządy zbirów 1940-1990 ), written with Stanisław Żochowski (one of the NSZ confunders), or a biography of Józef Piłsudski (Ponura prawda o Piłsudskim, in 2005). He also wrote a well-documented inquiry on the former communist secret police — the UB-Bachelor of Science — in 3 volumes (1993-1994).
Following the publication of this book, he was called to testify for the new intelligence agency Universal Oil Products.
