Opozycja polityczna w świetle danych Biura Studiów Służby Bezpieczeństwa MSW z 1988 roku
Political Opposition in the Light of the Data of the Study Office of the Security Service of the Ministry of the Interior of 1988

Summary/Abstract: Upon the introduction of martial law in Poland, the Study Office of the Security Service of the Ministry of the Interior was ordered not only to carry out operational activities against the most important organizations of the “Solidarity” Underground but also to create and gather analytical materials thereon. Reports were regularly prepared on the number of people engaged in the underground opposition and on the specifics of the organizations operating within its framework. Such analyses were also used to assess the extent to which underground communities had been infiltrated by different units of the Security Service (excluding the Study Office), as well as to forecast developments in the underground and to work out scenarios for potential actions that might weaken it. The published document is the last analysis of this kind prepared before the Round Table talks. It sheds light on the assessment of the Underground which was accepted by the Study Office of the Security Service and by the management of the Ministry of the Interior at that time. The document reveals that, despite of the Security Service’s successes in breaking up the underground structures and placing its agents therein, it was not able to control them and influence their development.

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