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Informacja dotycząca Keston College opracowana w Wydziale XI Departamentu I MSW
Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, No. 12 (2019), pages: 251–264
Publication date: 2023-04-05
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Abstract
The Center for the Study of Religion and Communism, colloquially referred to as Keston College, was founded in 1969 in Great Britain. Thanks to established contacts in the USSR and Eastern Bloc countries, and care for the reliability of the information provided, heads of the Michael Bordeaux center and colleagues quickly built Keston’s reputation as a credible communicator of the “voice of the persecuted”. Its growing importance as an opinion-forming center translated into the interest of intelligence services in communist countries, including the Polish Department of the Ministry of the Interior. The published document entitled “Information on Keston College” was produced in 1982 in Division XI of this department and summarizes the results of the first period of the center’s development, which was conducted from 1979 to 1982. The content of the source shows that officers of the Security Service were not able to reach people associated with Keston College, and the information obtained was a duplication of the publicly available data on the functioning of this center.
