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== Intelligence == {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} {{div col|colwidth=32em}} * [[Feliks Ankerstein]], interwar [[covert operations|covert-operations]] officer and deputy to [[Edmund Charaszkiewicz]] in Office 2 of the General Staff's Section II (Intelligence) * [[Edmund Charaszkiewicz]], interwar [[covert operations|covert-operations]] officer and coordinator of [[Józef Piłsudski]]'s [[Prometheism|Promethean]] project to dismember the Soviet Union * [[Maksymilian Ciężki]], chief of the Polish [[Biuro Szyfrów|Cipher Bureau]]'s German section (''BS–4''), which from 1932 decrypted German [[Enigma cipher]]s, paving the way for Britain's World War II [[Ultra (cryptography)|Ultra secret]] * [[Roman Czerniawski]], Polish Air Force captain and British [[Double Cross System]] agent * [[:pl:Marian Drobik|Marian Drobik]], [[Home Army]] (AK) colonel, chief of the General Staff's Section II (intelligence) (1942–1943) * [[Wiktor Tomir Drymmer]], close collaborator of Foreign Minister [[Józef Beck]], and chief of the secret prewar K-7 organization that supervised certain Polish [[covert operation]]s * [[Józef Englicht]], prewar deputy chief of the Polish [[General Staff]]'s Section II * [[Michael Goleniewski]], [[Cold War]] Polish, Soviet, and American-CIA agent * [[Jan Karski]], emissary who confirmed the reality of [[the Holocaust]] to [[Allies of World War II|Western Allies]] * [[Bolesław Kontrym]], Polish agent, [[Red Army]] combrig, Polish Army major * [[Jan Kowalewski]], engineer, intelligence officer and cryptologist, one of many who broke Soviet [[cipher]]s during the [[Polish-Soviet War]] of 1919–1921 * [[Andrzej Kowerski]], Polish Army officer and World War II British [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent; colleague of [[Krystyna Skarbek]] * [[Ryszard Kukliński]], Polish Army colonel, [[Cold War]] [[Central Intelligence Agency|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 bean]]s captured from the Turks * [[Gwido Langer]], head of Poland's [[Biuro Szyfrów|Cipher Bureau]], which from 1932 broke Germany's military [[Enigma cipher]]s * [[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 [[Biuro Szyfrów|Cipher Bureau]] * [[Jerzy Pawłowski]], Olympic gold-medalist [[fencing|fencer]] and Cold-War [[double agent]] * [[Tadeusz Pełczyński]], general, chief of the General Staff's Section II (1929–1932; 1935–January 1938) * [[Sergiusz Piasecki]], Polish agent, covering the area of Soviet Belarus (1922–1926) * [[Marcel Reich-Ranicki]], Polish [[consul-general]] and intelligence agent in London (1948–1949); the most influential contemporary [[literary criticism|critic]] of [[German literature]] * [[Tadeusz Schaetzel]], [[intelligence officer]], chief of the General Staff's Section II (1926–1929) * [[Krystyna Skarbek]], aka ''Christine Granville'', World War II British [[Special Operations Executive|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, Polish spy in Germany (1926–1934) as Georg von Sosnowski, Ritter von Nalecz * [[Antoni Szymański]], Polish [[military attaché]] in Berlin (1932–1939) * [[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 {{div col end}} {{col-break|width=220px}} <gallery mode=nolines widths=100 heights=100 style="width:220px"> File:Feliks Ankerstein.jpg|[[Feliks Ankerstein|Ankerstein]] File:Grodynski Brigade Image 04.JPG|[[Stanisław Sylwester Alfonzy Grodyński|Grodyński]] File:Jan Karski - Instytut w Rudzie Śląskiej.jpg|[[Jan Karski|Karski]] File:Boleslaw kontrym.jpg|[[Bolesław Kontrym|Kontrym]] File:Jan Kowalewski.jpg|[[Jan Kowalewski|Kowalewski]] File:Płk Ryszard Kukliński.jpg|[[Ryszard Kukliński|Kukliński]] File:Georg Franz Kolschitzky.JPG|[[Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki|Kulczycki]] File:Leski Kazimierz.jpg|[[Kazimierz Leski|Leski]] File:Tadeusz Pełczyński - Grzegorz.jpg|[[Tadeusz Pełczyński|Pełczyński]] File:Schaetzel T.jpg|[[Tadeusz Schaetzel|Schaetzel]] File:Krystyna Skarbek alias Jacqueline Armand 1945.png|[[Krystyna Skarbek|Skarbek]] File:Wlodarkiewicz jan.jpg|[[Jan Włodarkiewicz|Włodarkiewicz]] </gallery> {{col-end}}
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