Counterintelligence prevention in the activities of the Internal Military Service

Abstract

WSW replaced the Main Directorate of Information in the structures of the Armed Forces that were feared and hated. WSW was to play only a preventive and informative role. These assumptions, however, bear the mark of a totalitarian system. The WSW was assigned supervisory tasks in other areas. WSW was obliged to carry out activities in the field of counterintelligence protection of the Armed Forces in order to prevent recognition of the army by the intelligence services of foreign states. The objectives and fields of activity of military protection were implemented in a preventive form through counterintelligence prevention. The source documents left by the WSW show that counterintelligence prevention was carried out to combat crime in the People's Republic of Poland, and to prevent the penetration of military facilities by the intelligence services of capitalist countries. Moreover, they prevented violations of the principles of protection of state