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Website. https://aw.gov.pl/. 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. [2]
Though the first official Polish government service entrusted with espionage, intelligence and counter-intelligence was not formed until 1918, Kingdom of Poland and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth had developed networks of informants in neighbouring countries. Envoys and ambassadors had also gathered intelligence, often using bribery.
Poland (1990-2019) 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.
Sławomir Petelicki was born on September 13, 1946, in Warsaw. In 1969, he graduated from the Law Faculty of the Warsaw University. The same year he joined the I Department (Intelligence) Ministry of Internal Affairs of People's Republic of Poland and, until 1990, he served at various posts in the intelligence service. On various posts in ...
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 ...
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]
Marian Zacharski. Marian Zacharski (born 1951 in Gdynia, Poland; raised in nearby Sopot), is a former Polish intelligence officer, arrested in 1981 and convicted of espionage against the United States. After four years in prison, he was exchanged for American agents on Berlin's famous Glienicke Bridge. Arguably, he was one of the most famous ...
Poland. Headquarters. Warsaw. Agency executive. Andrzej Barcikowski. Parent agency. Ministry of Interior. The Office of State Protection (Polish: Urząd Ochrony Państwa (Polish pronunciation: [ˈuʐɔnt ɔˈxrɔnɨ ˈpaɲstfa], UOP) [1]) was the intelligence agency of Poland from 1990 to 2002, when it was split into two new agencies.