Kryptonim „Wrota” – kontrwywiad PRL wobec działalności Ambasady Rumunii w Warszawie w latach 1967–1971
Code name “Gate” – Actions of the Polish People’s Republic Counterintelligence towards the Activity of the Embassy of Romania in Warsaw in the years 1967–1971

Summary/Abstract: In the second half of 1960s, the counterintelligence of the Polish People’s Republic became interested in the activities of the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Romania in Warsaw. Polish services were particularly curious about the meetings of the Embassy’s employees with representatives of NATO countries, especially with Canadians, Americans, Italians and Britons, and also about their contacts with citizens of the Polish People’s Republic. The surveillance of Romanian diplomats became particularly important after the Warsaw Pact troops entered Czechoslovakia. The Romanian army was not involved in this operation and the government in Bucharest saw this as a violation of Czechoslovak independence. Supporters of Romania’s foreign policy free of the Soviet Union’s influence were considered as dangerous ‘advocates of nationalistic and anti-Soviet tendencies’. Moreover, all contacts by the embassy’s employees were controlled, taking into account their political and propaganda aspect. Polish services were thus particularly interested in the subject matter of the meetings and talks between the Romanian diplomats and representatives of NATO countries as well as in the contents of embassy’s mailings sent to various institutions and private individuals.

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