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The Surveillance of Ryszard Hrywniak by the Security Service between 1984-1990
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(17) (2019), pages: 217-231
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
The article presents one of the methods of citizens’ surveillance by the communistic Security Service (SB) in the People’s Republic of Poland. An example is the case of Ryszard Hrywniak, who was a resident in the town of Wałcz. He was convicted for attempting to disclose military information to foreign intelligence. After imprisonment, he was a suspected person and put under surveillance by the communistic Security Service between 1984–1990. The so-called Questionnaire Information (EC) with the code name ‘Ambassador’, in which collected information was recorded during the course of surveillance. The main sources of information were reports of secret collaborators and observations of SB officers. Throughout the surveillance period the evidence of spy activity could not be obtained. The Special Services collected much information about his private life activities and interests. The registration questionnaire of R. Hrywniak was completed due to lack of evidence for its anti-state activities. Collected documentation is currently in the Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance in Poznań.
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