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History of Polish intelligence services

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management of geodesy and cartography, (Główny Zarząd Geodezji i Kartografii) and health services (Centralny Zarząd Służby Zdrowia). Ministry of Internal Affairs also had control over the command of the Internal Security Corp. (Dowództwo Korpusu Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego or KBW), command of the Border Guard (Dowództwo Wojsk Ochrony Pogranicza or KOP), and management of Information of Internal Troops (Zarząd Informacji Wojsk Wewnetrznych). Through the 1980s the MSW had 24,390 staff in Security Services, 62,276 in the Citizen's Militsiya, 12,566 in Motorized Reserves of the Citizens Militia (Zmotoryzowane Odwody Milicji Obywatelskiej, or ZOMO), 20,673 in Administratively-Economic Units (Jednostki administracyjno-gospodarcze) and 4,594 in ministry schools, not including students.
1272:, or Odział II Szt Gen LWP) and bore the same name as its precursor from before the war. Odział II Szt Gen WP was established on July 18, 1945, but its origins can be traced to May 1943, when the first reconnaissance company was created in Polish Army units in the USSR. Between July 1947 and June 5, 1950, the Second Section of General Staff of the Polish People's Army operated within the structure of the Ministry of Public Security together with the civilian intelligence branch as Department VII. On June 5, 1950, it returned to the Ministry of Defense. The first head of Odział II Szt Gen WP was Colonel 1025:(who had survived the war and lived to 1980), made slow headway against British and American obfuscations, mendacities and fabrications. The Polish Enigma-breaking effort had been much more sophisticated than those English-language accounts made out, and had in fact relied largely on mathematical analysis. Historians' efforts to gain access to documentation of other Polish intelligence operations met with British stonewalling and with claims that the pertinent Polish archives had been destroyed by the British. 1385:) and without much organizational change; at least none that was visible to the general public. The new Polish conservative government declared dissolution of the WSI and creating new services in October 2005, since the agency skipped serious external reforms after the collapse of communism in 1989. Throughout the transformation the WSI were allegedly involved in dubious operations, arms sales to UN-sanctioned states and corruption scandals. In 2006, the WSI was split into 1358:, or UOP) was formed and staffed mainly by the former SB officers who successfully passed a verification procedure. Its mission was primarily general espionage and intelligence gathering as well as counter-espionage and fighting against high ranked organized crime. It was commanded by a career intelligence officer but was directly supervised by a civilian government official, Coordinator for the Special Services. 1253:, more commonly known as the Urząd Bezpieczeństwa or UB, and the name was changed to the Main Directorate of Information of the Committee for Public Security, or GZI KdsBP. In November 1956 the GZI Kds.BP separated from the Committee for Public Security, and returned to its previous role, becoming again the Main Directorate of Information of the Ministry of Defense. After the reform instituted by 780:, created in 1924. On a number of occasions, soldiers crossed the border disguised as smugglers, partisans or bandits. They gathered information on the disposition of Soviet troops and the morale of the Soviet populace. At the same time, Soviet forces carried out analogous missions on Polish soil. The situation finally stabilized in 1925; however, such missions continued to occur occasionally. 35: 1213:
fire rescue. The Ministry of Internal Affairs was divided into departments. The most important of these were the first second and third departments. The first dealt with foreign operations and intelligence gathering, the second with spy activities both by Poland and other countries and the third was responsible for anti-state activities and the protection of the country's secrets.
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Until the late 1930s the Soviet Union was seen as the most likely aggressor and Poland's main adversary. Section II developed an extensive network of agents within Poland's eastern neighbor and other adjoining countries. In the early 1920s Polish intelligence began developing a network for "offensive
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the MSW was one of the biggest and strongest administrations. During this period its responsibilities included intelligence, counter-espionage, anti-state activity (SB), government protection, confidential communications, supervision of the local governments, militsiya, correctional facilities, and
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An extensive network of domestic and foreign informants developed rapidly. This was due to Poland's poor economic situation, itself the result of over a century of foreign occupation. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Poland's economic and political situation had forced hundreds of thousands to
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With the exception of its own departments and sections, the MSW also had control over the Militsiya (Komenda Główna Milicji Obywatelskiej or KG/MO), fire rescue (Komenda Główna Straży Pożarnych or KG/SP), territorial anti-aircraft defense, (Komenda Główna Terenowej Obrony Przeciwlotniczej KG/TOP),
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from continental Europe in between 1939 and 1945 came from Polish sources. The total number of those reports is estimated about bout 80,000, and 85% of them were deemed high or better quality. Despite Poland becoming occupied, the Polish intelligence network not only survived but grew rapidly, and
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Until 1939 Polish intelligence services did not, as a rule, collaborate with the intelligence services of other countries with exception of Imperial Japan. A partial exception was also France, Poland's closest ally; even then cooperation was lukewarm, with neither side sharing their most precious
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Polish Intelligence produced fairly accurate pictures of the capabilities of Poland's main potential adversaries—Germany and the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, this information was of little avail when war came in September 1939. Good intelligence could not offset the overwhelming superiority of the
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has argued that the western Allies did themselves a disservice in first keeping secret for three decades the major contribution that reading of German ciphers made to Allied victory, and then claiming for themselves all the glory of the Enigma-breaking achievement; for this has led a couple of
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On March 15, 1946, Section II was officially disbanded, and its archives were taken over by Britain. At Section II's dissolution, it had 170 officers and 3,500 agents, excluding headquarters staff. Very likely at least some of the Polish agents continued working directly for Britain during the
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Western Allies had limited intelligence assets in Central and Eastern Europe, and extensive Polish intelligence network in place proved to be a major asset, even described as "the only allied intelligence assets on the Continent" following the French capitulation. According to
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German and Soviet armed forces. The conquest of Poland took four weeks—too short a time for intelligence services to make a significant contribution. With Poland conquered, her intelligence services had to evacuate their headquarters to allied French and British territories.
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On occupying Poland and installing a puppet government, the Soviet Union created new Polish intelligence and internal-security agencies. The Soviet special services had begun training Polish officers as early as 1943. That year, some 120 Poles had begun training at an
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The first military special services in Poland after World War II were created in 1943 as part of the Polish military in the USSR. First organ that dealt with military counterespionage was called Directorate of Information by the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army
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At that time Britain was in a difficult situation, badly in need of intelligence from occupied Europe after rapid German advances had disrupted its networks and put German forces into areas where Britain had few agents. Following the personal intervention of
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was made public in the 1970s, did a Polish contribution begin to become known; even then, however, the early versions published in Britain (and some versions even to the end of the 20th century) claimed that Polish intelligence had only been able to
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Akcja Łom: Polskie działania dywersyjne na Rusi Zakarpackiej w świetle dokumenów Oddziału II Sztabu Głównego WP (Operation Crowbar: Polish Diversionary Operations in Transcarpathian Ruthenia in Light of Documents of Section II of the Polish General
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in early 1919, intelligence from the east proved vital to Poland's survival against a far superior enemy. A separate organization was formed within Polish Intelligence, taking over most intelligence duties for the duration of the war. This was a
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The Polish intelligence contribution to Britain's war effort was kept secret due to Cold War exigencies. In later years, as official British histories were released, the Polish intelligence role barely rated a mention. Only when British wartime
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which they had developed in France. The Poles were the only Allied country that was given this unique status, though as the war progressed it was challenged by some agencies of the British government. Due to support from members of the British
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in 1943. Poland's networks supplied the western Allies with intelligence on nearly all aspects of the German war effort. Of 45,770 reports received by British intelligence during the war, nearly half (22,047) came from Polish agents.
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The next big changes came in 1956. The Committee for Public Security was canceled and the Ministry of Internal Affairs took over their responsibilities. The MSW assumed control of the political police, under the
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and some perceived failures with organized crime cases. In 2002 the new, post-communist left-wing government reorganized the special services by dividing them into two agencies; the Internal Security Agency
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In the first half of 1941 Polish agents in France supplied Britain with intelligence on U-boat movements from French Atlantic ports. The Polish network in France grew to 1,500 members and, before and during
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in 1956, and the role the GZI played in repressions and executions, the Main Directorate of Information of Ministry of Defense was canceled in 1957 and replaced by the Military Internal Service (
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Six-and-a-half years after the initial Polish decryption of Enigma ciphers, French and British intelligence representatives were briefed on Polish achievements at a trilateral conference held at
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Schwonek, Matthew R. (2006-04-19). "Intelligence Co-operation Between Poland and Great Britain During World War II: The Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee, Vol. 1 (review)".
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Zanim złamano Enigmę: Polski radiowywiad podczas wojny z bolszewicką Rosją 1918–1920 (Before Enigma Was Broken: Polish Radio Intelligence during the Polish-Soviet War, 1918–1920)
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The Kds.BP was responsible for intelligence and government protection and. From September 3, 1955, to 28 November 1956, the Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army (
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against Germany), her international situation was unenviable. By mid-1921, Section II had been restructured into three main departments, each overseeing a number of offices:
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Key Polish Cipher Bureau personnel escaped from Poland on September 17, 1939, on the Soviet Union's entry into eastern Poland, and eventually reached France. There, at "
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emigrate. With the advent of Polish independence, many émigrés offered their services to Polish intelligence agencies. Others Poles who had been living in the former
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The fourth department, Offensive Intelligence "C", became the most developed because it carried out all the duties connected with "front-line"
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Bitwa o tajemnice: służby wywiadowcze Polski i Niemiec, 1918–1939 (Secret Battle: The Intelligence Services of Poland and Germany, 1918–1939)
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and non-Jewish populations. Polish intelligence gave the British crucial information on Germany's secret-weapons projects, including the
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Most of the time the agency evaded public attention, although it was dragged into political fighting over appointments of its chiefs,
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The Ministry of Public Security was responsible for both intelligence and counter-espionage, as well as surveillance of citizens and
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had also undergone the same training in order to prepare them for work in future special services in their respective countries.
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requested and obtained (at that time without any reservations) the right to use, without British oversight, their own
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On the Border of War and Peace: Polish Intelligence and Diplomacy in 1937–1939, and the Origins of the Ultra Secret
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On December 31, 1944, the PKWN was joined by several members of the Polish government in exile, among them
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in September 1940, cooperation between British and Polish intelligence organizations entered a new phase.
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The first Polish Military Intelligence after World War II was the Second Section of General Staff of the
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Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two
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The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II
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The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II
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and were now making their way home through war-torn Russia, provided priceless intelligence on the
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In July 1944 in Moscow the temporary Polish puppet government was established by the name of the
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Centre for Radioelectronic Combat Reconnaissance and Support ″Lieutenant Colonel Jan Kowalewski″
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landings in North Africa in November 1942, the first large-scale Allied landings of the war.
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alone. Many of these provided intelligence on industrial production and economic conditions.
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subsequent generations of western politicians and military officers to, in the words of
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The third department, Offensive Intelligence "B," controlled an intelligence network in
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The initial break into the Enigma ciphers had been made in late 1932 by mathematician
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secrets. An important exception was the long-term collaboration between France's
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The military intelligence continued to function under a slightly altered name (
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Intelligence Co-operation between Poland and Great Britain during World War II
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a German Enigma machine. The truth, which had previously been disclosed in
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The Poles placed their Section II at the disposal of the British, but as a
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who crossed the Polish lines in their thousands, especially after the 1920
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6th Oliwa Radioelectronic Reconnaissance Regiment ″Admiral Arendt Dickman″
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was disbanded by the first free government under the prime minister,
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Polish spies also documented German atrocities being perpetrated at
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Immediately upon achieving independence in 1918, Poland established
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Though the first official Polish government service entrusted with
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In Western Europe (especially in Germany, France and Belgium) the
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German Enigma-enciphered messages on a regular and timely basis.
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Military Unit NIL "Brigadier General August Emil Fieldorf «Nil»"
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The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
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Ministry of Public Security - Department of Security (MBP-UB)
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Polish ciphers and codes, communication, and foreign press.
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and intelligence, as well as "long-range" intelligence and
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and loyal to Piłsudski and to a future independent Poland.
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was not formed until 1918, Kingdom of Poland and later the
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network based out of New York City from 1941 during WWII.
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near the end of the war had over 1,600 registered agents.
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was divided into divisions entrusted with specific tasks:
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Bureau of Criminal Intelligence and Information (BWiIK)
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Polish kings and Polish–Lithuanian military commanders (
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Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego Ludowego Wojska Polskiego
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Główny Zarząd Informacji Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej
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2nd Przasnysz Radioelectronic Reconnaissance Regiment
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Zarząd Informacji Naczelnego Dowódcy Wojska Polskiego
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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 2302:Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army 2122:Central Investigations Bureau of the Police (CBŚP) 1032:to the Allies; 48% of all reports received by the 776:Short-range reconnaissance was carried out by the 623:Additional intelligence was obtained from Russian 475:– Contacts with military and civilian authorities; 2141:General Inspector of Financial Information (GIIF) 2128:Operations and Investigations Directorate of the 1174:'s death in 1953 and the later defection of Col. 1021:'s book and would later be detailed in papers by 1918:Przepust karpacki: tajna akcja polskiego wywiadu 1900:In the Secret Service: The Lighting of the Torch 1140:), or RBP, headed by long-time Polish communist 1596: 1594: 1592: 2185:National Centre for Cyberspace Security (NCBC) 1874:Zbiór dokumentów ppłk. Edmunda Charaszkiewicza 1607:. Harvard University Press. pp. 234–236. 1318:and Austria was expanded to countries such as 2060: 1300:Zarząd II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego 245:secured a promise of military assistance for 8: 2035:Brudne gry: ostatnie akcje Służb Specjalnych 1157:Provisional Government of Republic of Poland 181:had also gathered intelligence, often using 1247:Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego 1180:Komitet do Spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego 975:'s report) and elsewhere in Poland against 2168:Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW) 2067: 2053: 2045: 1748:The Polish Resistance Home Army, 1939-1945 894:, most of Section II ended up in Britain. 2275:Second Department of Polish General Staff 1239:Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego 1191:Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego 1075:Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego 825:, working for the Polish General Staff's 226:. 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