Чекистские операции по польской линии в 1918 г.
TCHeKa Polish Operations in 1918

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses Cheka’s activity in the field of searching for Polish underground organizations in 1918. The article based on archival materials, including documents from Central archive of FSB, Russian state historic military archive. The author tells about different Polish military organizations. Their success at the start of 1918 wasprovided with a backing of French military mission and with a lack of covert intelligence work experience among Cheka members. In fact, Polish military organizations succeeded during a long period in raising of funds from Soviet government, because the Soviet regime hoped to create international troops. The author describes main types of such organizations, including enlistment in Polish anti-bolshevist military groups all over the North and East of Russia, anti-bolshevist propaganda, adulteration of documents. Gradual improvement of Cheka’s methods, including implementation of informers, helped to search this activity in the summer of 1918. During the period of Red Terror, many members of Polish military organizations were shoot. It punctured a scheme of deposing the Soviet government.

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