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After the Polish–Soviet War and the Treaty of Riga, Polish Intelligence had to restructure to cope with new challenges.Though Poland had won most of her border conflicts (most notably the war with Russia and the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–19 against Germany), her international situation was unenviable.
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)
According to official criteria, the Polish "intelligentsia" included anyone with a middle school or higher education, priests, teachers, doctors, dentists, veterinarians, veteran military officers, bureaucrats, members of Polish administration, police, medium and large businessmen and merchants, medium and large landowners, writers, journalists ...
Witold Pilecki (Polish: [ˈvitɔlt piˈlɛt͡skʲi] ⓘ; 13 May 1901 – 25 May 1948), known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold, [1] was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
After the war Niezbrzycki, who took education both in Polish and Russian, was introduced to Józef Piłsudski, who offered him a job in the Headquarters of the Polish Army. His task was to work in Polish-Soviet border districts, simultaneously, he studied law and politics at the Warsaw University , his main interest was the Soviet Union and its ...
General Jacob Devers with Major Mieczysław "Rygor" Słowikowski, on awarding him the Legion of Merit for his invaluable contributions to the Allied North African campaign. Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski ( Jazgarzew , near Warsaw , 1896–1989, London ), also known as " Rygor-Słowikowski ," was a Polish Army officer whose intelligence work ...
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.
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 ...