List of Polish People - Intelligence

Intelligence

  • Feliks Ankerstein, interwar covert-operations officer and deputy to Edmund Charaszkiewicz in Office 2 of the General Staff's Section II (the Intelligence section).
  • Edmund Charaszkiewicz, interwar covert-operations officer and coordinator of Józef Piłsudski's Promethean project to dismember the Soviet Union.
  • Maksymilian Ciężki, prewar chief of the Polish Cipher Bureau's German section (BS–3), which from 1932 decrypted German Enigma ciphers in the prelude to Britain's World War II Ultra Secret.
  • Roman Czerniawski, Polish Air Force captain and British Double Cross System agent.
  • Marian Drobik, Home Army (AK) colonel, chief of the General Staff's Section II (intelligence) in 1942–43.
  • Wiktor Tomir Drymmer, close collaborator of Foreign Minister Józef Beck, and chief of the secret prewar K-7 organization that supervised certain Polish covert operations.
  • Józef Englicht, prewar deputy chief of the Polish General Staff's Section II.
  • Michael Goleniewski, Cold War Polish, Soviet and American CIA agent.
  • Bolesław Kontrym, Polish agent, Red Army combrig, Polish Army major.
  • Jan Kowalewski, engineer, intelligence officer and cryptologist, one of many who broke Soviet ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21.
  • Andrzej Kowerski, Polish Army officer and World War II British SOE agent; colleague of Krystyna Skarbek.
  • Ryszard Kukliński, Polish Army colonel, Cold War CIA master spy.
  • Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, Polish spy at the Battle of Vienna (1683); founder of Vienna's first coffee house, which offered coffee produced from coffee beans captured from the Turks.
  • Gwido Langer, head of Poland's interbellum Cipher Bureau, which in 1932 first broke the German Enigma ciphers.
  • Kazimierz Leski, engineer, fighter pilot, World War II "Musketeers" and Home Army intelligence officer.
  • Stefan Mayer, prewar Section II intelligence officer who supervised the General Staff's Cipher Bureau.
  • Jerzy Pawłowski, Olympic gold-medalist fencer and Cold-War double agent.
  • Tadeusz Pełczyński, general, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1929–32 and 1935 – January 1938).
  • Sergiusz Piasecki, Polish agent, covering the area of Soviet Belarus, 1922–26.
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish consul-general and intelligence agent in London,1948–49; the most influential contemporary critic of German literature.
  • Tadeusz Schaetzel, intelligence officer, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1926–29).
  • Krystyna Skarbek, World War II British SOE agent.
  • Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski (Rygor-Słowikowski), Polish Army intelligence officer whose work in North Africa facilitated Allied preparations for the 1942 Operation Torch landings.
  • Jerzy Sosnowski, major, a Polish spy in Germany (1926–1934) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz.
  • Antoni Szymański, Polish military attaché in Berlin (1932–39).
  • Halina Szymańska, World War II British intelligence agent; wife of Antoni Szymański.
  • Jan Włodarkiewicz, lieutenant colonel, the first commander of Wachlarz.
  • Marian Zacharski, Cold-War Polish intelligence agent convicted of espionage against the United States.

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