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“Burglars from the Security Service”. Penetration Actions of the Counterintelligence of the Polish People’s Republic in the US Consulate in Cracow (1980s) – A Source Sketch
Patryk Pleskot
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5627-8325
Oddziałowe Biuro Badań Historycznych IPN w Warszawie i Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
Bio(b. 1980), PhD in Political Science since 2015, PhD in History since 2007, Professor at the University of Rzeszów. Graduate of the University of Warsaw and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He also studied at the University of Nancy. Scholarship holder of the Foundation for Polish Science, the Ministry of National Education and the Government of the French Republic; visiting fellowat the University of Western Sydney (2013). Member of, among other things, the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), the Polish Studies Association (PSA) and the Baltic Intelligence and
Security Studies Association (BISSA). He is currently the chief specialist at the Branch Historical Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw. He is the author of more than 150 scientific articles and has authored, co-authored or edited more than 40 books. Winner of, among other things, the Polityka History Award (several times), the Klio Award, and the competition for
the best History Book of the Year
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 20 (2022), pages: 209-225
Publication date: 2023-03-29
https://doi.org/10.48261/arprl222006
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Abstract
This article presents selected sources on the issue of penetration actions organised by Division IX of Department II of the Ministry of the Interior at the US consulate in Cracow in the 1980s. Researchers and journalists have only recently gained the opportunity to analyse these and related activities, as the so-called restricted collection of the Institute of National Remembrance has been liquidated. Although only incomplete documentation of the penetration actions undertaken and the technical means used to carry them out has survived, it shows the scale of the activities carried out by the civilian counterintelligence of the Polish People’s Republic in the broad framework of the surveillance of Western diplomats.
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