The Polish cross of Soviet counterintelligence. Zdanovich A.A.

Since the proclamation of independent Poland in 1918, its leadership headed for confrontation with Soviet Russia and in this confrontation not only military forces, but also special services were used. Already in 1918, the Polish Council of the Inter -Party Association came into close contact with the French military mission, with the mediation of which a group of Polish officers was sent to Siberia, whose task was the formation of Polish units from prisoners of the Poles and the participation of these units in the overthrow of the Soviet regime, and with the beginning The Soviet-Polish war on the territory of Ukraine and Russia intensified the cells of the Polish organization of the military. And after the end of the Soviet-Polish war, the secret war did not end-the 2nd department of the General Staff of the Polish army actively helped various anti-Soviet organizations and sent his agents to the territory of the USSR. The proposed book by Alexander Zdanovich, one of the leading historians of the domestic special services, in detail, on the basis of previously unknown documents, tells about the confrontation of the Soviet and Polish special services from 1918 to 1939. , and also illuminates the role of Soviet state security organs in the creation in 1942-1944. In the USSR, the Polish troops.