Służba Bezpieczeństwa
Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB for short, Polish for security service ) was the secret police and a secret service of the People's Republic of Poland from 1956 to 1990 .
history
The Polish Security Service emerged from the restructuring of the Ministry of Public Security (Polish Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego ). Together with its predecessor, the so-called Security Office (Polish: Urząd Bezpieczeństwa ), this intelligence service is the Polish equivalent of the Ministry for State Security in the GDR and the Czechoslovak State Security .
In the 1950s, the service set up a number transmitter , commonly called Swedish Rhapsody . This station ceased operations at the end of the Cold War .
Shortly before its dissolution 24,300 strong were functionaries and 90,000 unofficial employees for the Polish security service operates.
Murders
The Polish Security Service was responsible for the intimidation and murder of several political opponents of the communist regime in the People's Republic of Poland. While alone martial law between 1981 and 1983 88 were dissidents of Solidarność killed. In October 1984 three officers of the Polish State Security Service murdered the Roman Catholic priest Jerzy Popiełuszko .