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Very likely at least some of the Polish agents continued working directly for Britain during the Cold War. 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.
Agencja Wywiadu (AW) (Foreign Intelligence Agency, also principal SIGINT and IMINT agency) Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW) (Internal Security Agency - domestic and counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, counter-extremism, domestic SIGINT) Służba Wywiadu Wojskowego (SWW) (Military Intelligence Service including SIGINT and IMINT)
The Foreign Intelligence Agency (Polish: Agencja Wywiadu (Polish pronunciation: [aˈɡɛnt͡sja vɨˈvʲadu]; or AW) is a Polish intelligence agency tasked with the gathering of public and secret information abroad for the Republic of Poland.
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]
The Ministry of Public Security (Polish: Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego), was the secret police, intelligence and counter-espionage agency operating in the Polish People's Republic. From 1945 to 1954 it was known as the Security Office ( Urząd Bezpieczeństwa , UB), and from 1956 to 1990 as the Security Service ( Służba ...
How a Polish double agent defected and became an even more valuable asset to the West. He Was the West’s Most Important Undercover Spy. An Affair Brought It All Down.
Military Information Services (Wojskowe Służby Informacyjne, or WSI) was a common name for the Polish military intelligence and counter-intelligence agency. The agency was created in 1990 after the Revolutions of 1989 ended the Communist regime as a merger between the former Communist agencies Internal Military Service (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna, or WSW) and the Second Directorate of ...
Wicha was a Polish communist and politician PZPR member and then the first Minister of Internal Affairs from 1954 to 1964. After that his directive, the MSW was the only security body in Poland. Officers working in the Security Service were nicknamed "SB-eks" (Służba Bezpieczeństwa agents).