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"Dear Stefek..." The Story of the Collaboration between Stefan Sumlet, a Soldier in the Polish Guard Companies of the US Army, and the Communist Security Apparatus. A Case Study
Przemysław Benken
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1385-3016
Oddziałowe Biuro Badań Historycznych IPN w Szczecinie
Bion (b. 1985), PhD, historian and political scientist and employee of the Branch Historical Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Szczecin. Research interests: military history of the 19th and
20th centuries, recent Polish history with particular emphasis on diplomacy and the activities of the communist security apparatus
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 20 (2022), pages: 426-462
Publication date: 2023-03-29
https://doi.org/10.48261/arprl222014
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Abstract
The Communist security apparatus took a special interest in uncovering the Polish Guard Companies of the US Army. In addition to obtaining general information on the organisational structure of these units and their location, attention was drawn to the need to establish the identities of those serving in them (including officers and non-commissioned officers), who might have carried out intelligence activities against the Polish People’s Republic. This had to be achieved with the help of the relatives of the soldiers of the guard companies who were in the country, repatriates and ‘fugitives’ who had decided to return to the country. An important aspect of the uncovering of the Polish Guard Companies was the use of secret collaborators outside the borders of the Polish People’s Republic. In addition, relatives and friends of former guards were to be subject to operational control. The aim of this article was to present a case study illustrating the maintenance by the structures of the Ministry of the Interior of the Polish People’s Republic, between 1959 and 1968, of contact with a secret collaborator operating in Germany, Stanisław Sumlet, a non-commissioned officer in the Polish Guard Companies of the US Army.
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