Finding Needles in a Haystack: The Eastern Bloc's Counterintelligence Capabilities

摘要

The declassification of formerly Communist Poland's secret police files in recent years allows a broader look at the country's counterintelligence operations conducted during the Cold War. These documents permit extraordinary insight into the capabilities of the Polish counterintelligence apparatus and its perception of Western intelligence tradecraft. These sources, now stored at the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), disclose the methods and tools implemented by the Eastern Bloc's counterintelligence services which led to their many successes.