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The Internal Security Agency (ISA or ABW; Polish: Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego) is Poland's domestic counterintelligence and security agency. [2] The ABW is responsible for analyzing, reporting and preventing threats to Poland's internal security, including terrorism, foreign espionage, arms smuggling, drug trafficking, organized crime, corruption and economic coercion. [3]
Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (2002–present) (Internal Security Agency, ABW), since 2002 Agencja Wywiadu (2002–present) (Intelligence Agency, AW), since 2002 Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne (2006–present) (Central Anticorruption Bureau, CBA) - focused on investigations connected with all kinds of financial crimes.
In June 2002, the agency was split into two separate entities – Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (Internal Security Agency), which deals with internal security of the country, and Agencja Wywiadu (Intelligence Agency), which deals with foreign intelligence.
It was created in 2002 from the reform and split of Urząd Ochrony Państwa, which was split into Agencja Wywiadu (AW) and Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW). Current Head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency is Colonel Bartosz Jarmuszkiewicz. [3]
In 2002 the new, post-communist left-wing government reorganized the special services by dividing them into two agencies; the Internal Security Agency (Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego) and Intelligence Agency (Agencja Wywiadu). The move was widely perceived as a way of cleansing the higher ranks of the officers appointed by previous right ...
Foreign Intelligence Agency - Agencja Wywiadu (AW) Internal Security Agency - Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW) Military Intelligence Service - Służba Wywiadu Wojskowego (SWW) Military Counter-intelligence Service - Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego (SKW)
Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (English: Internal Security Agency): Responsible for matters related to Poland's internal security, including counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. It is analogous to the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and British Security Service (MI5). It is responsible directly to the Prime Minister.
Poland: Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego; Portugal: Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa (SIRP) former: PIDE, or Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado; Russia: Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), successor of Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK), successor of KGB