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Andrzej Pepłoński dokonał recenzji publikacji: Łukasz Ulatowski, Polski wywiad wojskowy w 1939 roku. Struktura organizacyjna, składy osobowe, personel, budżet, mob., Warszawa 2013, ss. 288.
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Oddział II SGWP przywiązywał dużą wagę do współpracy informacyjnej z Brytyjczykami, jednak dopiero w drugiej połowie lat trzydziestych kontakty na płaszczyźnie wywiadowczej stały się bardziej efektywne. Dotyczyły one zarówno rozpoznania potencjału militarnego ZSRS, jak i Niemiec hitlerowskich. Prawdziwy przełom we współpracy nastąpił w kwietniu 1939 r., po udzieleniu sobie przez Zjednoczone Królestwo i Polskę gwarancji bezpieczeństwa na wypadek agresji III Rzeszy. The Second Department of the Polish General Staff attached great importance to the cooperation with the British, but it was not until the second half of the 1930s that con tacts became more effective. They covered the military potential both of the USSR and Nazi Germany. A true breakthrough in the cooperation took place in April 1939, after the United Kingdom and Poland formalised their mutual military assistance in the event of aggression of the Third Reich.
Dzieje Najnowsze
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2021
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vol. 53
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issue 1
77-94
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The article discusses the organisation and effects of Polish radio intelligence operations on the German direction in the 1930s. It presents the inside story of the breaking of Enigma codes by Polish mathematicians. Thanks to this significant success, the Second Department of the Polish General Staff obtained a great deal of valuable information about the military and political situation of the Third Reich. Also, the cooperation between the Polish military intelligence and special services of France and Great Britain in radio intelligence is depicted. The text systematises and clarifies our knowledge of the work of the Polish Cipher Bureau in the field of Enigma decryption.
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Artykuł omawia organizację oraz efekty działalności polskiego radiowywiadu na kierunku niemieckim w latach trzydziestych XX w. Przedstawia kulisy złamania przez polskich matematyków szyfrów Enigmy. Dzięki temu znaczącemu sukcesowi Oddział II SGWP uzyskał wiele cennych informacji o sytuacji wojskowo-politycznej III Rzeszy. Ukazano też współpracę wywiadu wojskowego II RP ze służbami specjalnymi Francji i Wielkiej Brytanii na płaszczyźnie radiowywiadowczej. Tekst systematyzuje i uściśla dotychczasową wiedzę na temat prac polskiego Biura Szyfrów w zakresie dekryptażu Enigmy.
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Virtually throughout the whole period of 1921-1939 the political relations between Poland and USSR could be characterized by far-reaching distrust. This meant that both countries led against each other a large-scale intelligence. Polish armed forces military intelligence was mainly led by Division II of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces. Its aim was to identify and assess, as understood in wider context, Soviet military capabilities, especially the Workers and Peasants Red Army forces, as well as the Soviet communication system and capabilities of the military industry and industry which could have potential of supporting military efforts of the state and its armed forces. No less important task of the officers and employees of the Division II of the General Staff was to protect its own military capability against the Soviet military intelligence penetration. Author of this article undertook the analysis of the quantity, content and information value of the remaining archives of the Division II presently spread across several state archives in Poland, as well as archives abroad. These documents are crucial in understanding the extent and impact of its intelligence activities in years 1921-1939 targeting the USSR. Author's deliberations and conclusions were mainly formulated based on the most significant, most comprehensive and most valuable archival units of that collection currently held in Poland in the Central Military Archives and the New Records Archives, as well as archives of this creator which are part of archival collections in the Russian State Military Archive in Moscow, which also incorporated the former Storage Centre, Historical-Documentary Collection. Author's painstaking study shows, that it is difficult to overestimate the value of Division II archives when conducting research on Soviet threat to Poland in the interwar period. Similar, it is also difficult to assess the Soviet military capabilities at this time, and their various phenomena of economic, social and political nature, which occurred in the former USSR. Therefore, this archival collection may be a significant and valuable source of information for Soviet research. To this day we have preserved many records from different units of the Division II that may be considered very interesting and valuable research material. This material could considerably enhance our understanding of the level of knowledge of the Polish state on matters regarding Soviet Union in the years 1921-1939. From a research point of view, it is important that these documents do not relate exclusively to the military matters, even though dominant, but they provide description of all aspects of political, social and economic life of the country.
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