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    The Security Service (Polish: Służba Bezpieczeństwa; Polish pronunciation: [ˈswuʐba bɛspʲeˈt͡ʂɛɲstfa]), in full Security Service of the Ministry of Internal...
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    Wewnętrznych) or MSW; with this position Kiszczak had the notorious Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB) under his control. After General Kiszczak left WSW he was replaced...
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    Poland 1944 – 1950, An Encyclopaedic Guidebook) Operacja "Poeta": Służba Bezpieczeństwa na tropach Czesława Miłosza (with Grzegorz Majchrzak, Grzegorz Musidlak)...
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    Biography), about Lech Wałęsa's service as an informant of the communist Służba Bezpieczeństwa. Gontarczyk and Cenckiewicz argued that in the 1970s the Solidarity...
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    People's Republic of Poland, they were also under the surveillance of Służba Bezpieczeństwa. In 1978, Gwiazda was one of the founders of Free Trade Unions of...
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  • The Ministry of Public Security (Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego) with Security Services (Służba Bezpieczństwa, SB) is a representation of such...
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  • as a driver, while constantly being invigilated and repressed by Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB) (Security Service). This forced him to change his job several...
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    was an informant (codenamed "Lange") for the Polish communist-era Służba Bezpieczeństwa. He confirmed this, but stressed that he was passing only unimportant...
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    concentration camp Mokotów Prison in Warsaw used by Nazi Germany Płaszów PRL Służba Bezpieczeństwa Erich Dinges Bruno Müller Ulica Montelupich or "street of the...
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    Wiktor Borodziej (1929–2004) from the former Polish secret police Służba Bezpieczeństwa who reportedly helped his son acquire German high school education...
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    but the main activists of Solidarity had been arrested by the Służba Bezpieczeństwa, whose special agents got word of the plans. In the second half...
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  • apparatus (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa). Różański was personally involved in torturing dozens of opponents of the Polish People's Republic (PRL), including anti-communists...
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    on many occasions stopped and beaten by Poland's secret police (Służba Bezpieczeństwa, SB). Another reason for this was his sympathizing with the Hippie...
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    as an agent "Alek" of the secret police, the Security Service (Służba Bezpieczeństwa – SB), from 1983 to 1989. Kwaśniewski himself denied having been...
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    collaborated with the Security Services (Polish: Służba Bezpieczeństwa) of the People's Republic of Poland (Polish: PRL, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa).[failed verification]...
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    revealed that Jacek Karpiński worked as a secret informant for the Służba Bezpieczeństwa since 1961. He received considerable financial rewards for his work...
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  • collaborated with the Security Services (Polish: Służba Bezpieczeństwa) of the People's Republic of Poland (Polish: PRL, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa). The process...
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    colleges, factories and offices across Poland, functionaries of the Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB) (a secret police force) arrested numerous men suspected of...
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  • unlike in previous elections, intimidation by the secret police (Służba Bezpieczeństwa) and the government against the opposition was limited. The candidates...
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