Title
How to Recruit a Swede? Polish Military Intelligence and Failure of HUMINT in Cold War Sweden
Authors
[ 1 ] Wydział Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego, Akademia Sztuki Wojennej | [ P ] employee
Scientific discipline (Law 2.0)
Year of publication
2025
Article type
scientific article
Publication language
english
Keywords
PL
- Szpiegostwo
- Wywiad osobowy
- Wywiad wojskowy polski
- Zimna wojna
- Polska
- Szwecja
Abstract
EN Declassified Polish documents clearly show that recruitment efforts among Swedish citizens presented numerous challenges for the staff of the Polish intelligence residency, which, for several decades, was unable to recruit a high-ranking source with access to military information. When such an opportunity finally arose, Polish officers viewed the walk-in source as a provocation by Swedish counterintelligence and subsequently reported the matter to the Swedish police. The difficulties in recruiting Swedes led the residency to seek alternative ways of acquiring human sources. After many failures, it ultimately focused its human intelligence activities on Polish nationals or Swedes of Polish descent. The scale and nature of these intelligence activities were more modest than portrayed by the Swedish media
Pages (from - to)
1 - 33
Ministry points / journal
70
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