Obiekt „Kazilas”. Inwigilacja komendanta Okręgu Wileńskiego ZWZ płk. Nikodema Sulika przez NKWD-NKGB w latach 1940-1941
‘Kazilas’ Object. The NKVD-NKGB Surveillance of the ZWZ Vilnius District Commandant, Col Nikodem Sulik, in 1940-41

Summary/Abstract: Found in the Lithuanian Special Archives in Vilnius files on the NKVD operational exposure under the codename of ‘Polskiie minareti’ shed new light on the fight against Polish underground in Vilnius conducted by the Soviet occupants. An analysis of these documents led to the conclusion that the commandant of the Vilnius District of the Armed Combat Union (ZWZ), Col Nikodem Sulik ‘Ładyna’, was from September 1940 to April 1941 kept under surveillance carried out by NKVD-NKGB agents. A key role was played by an informer ‘Jareckii’ (Zygmunt Kaleński) introduced into his milieu, who for over six months was reporting on the Polish officer. Besides, in October 1940, the NKVD intelligence agents carried out external surveillance of Sulik, meticulously documenting his way of living. Also, his closest associates were under surveillance, including his two deputies, Maj Aleksander Krzyżanowski and Maj Władysław Kamiński, and Father Kazimierz Kucharski. The actions of NKVD-NKGB were to expose the whole underground organisation and its ties with the Polish authorities in Great Britain. As part of standard tactics used in other territories under the Soviet occupation, NKVD planned to recruit Col Sulik and his deputy Maj Kamiński as agents to take control over the Polish organisation. The Soviets, however, were unable to implement these plans fully. Instead of conducting a sophisticated operational combination, in March 1941, on Moscow’s order, NKVD began mass arrests among the members of Vilnius Districts of the Armed Combat Union. The operational exposure conducted before certainly facilitated the arrests of its commanders, including Col Sulik, Maj Kamiński, and Father Kucharski. The above research findings shed new light on the history of Vilnius underground in 1940-41, which was surveyed and exposed by the Soviet services to a greater extent than it has been recognised so far.

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