Estezet
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Estezet (STZ) was the code name of a Polish intelligence service branch established in New York City in August 1941 when a cooperative agreement was signed between Polish and American spy services.[1]
History
The branch was set up by Section II (Oddział II) of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces. The agency worked in secret at the General Consulate of the Second Polish Republic in New York. Its operational area was the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, and Bolivia. The goals of the agency were to observe the military, political situations and the development of the Polish diaspora in countries in the Americas. The agency paid particular attention to agitation and penetration by Communism and its agents with special regard to the United States, Canada and Polish affairs. It also concerned itself with the state, development and political situation of Ukrainian communities and the analysis of Central and Eastern European immigrant press (Polish, German, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian, and Jewish).
Archives
A digitized collection of Estezet documents is available at the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America. It was given to the Institute by Marian Chodacki, a former Estezet operative, after he entrusted it in the care of at the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth in Phildadelphia in the event of his death.[2]
See also
References
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- Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA)
- Foreign Intelligence Agency (AW)
- Internal Security Agency (ABW)
- National Police Headquarters (KGP)
- Bureau of Criminal Intelligence and Information (BWiIK)
- Corresponding departments of the Voivodeship Police Commands
- Central Investigations Bureau of the Police (CBŚP)
- Operations and Investigations Directorate of the Border Guard Headquarters (ZOŚ KGSG)
- Tax and Customs Service (SCS)
- General Inspector of Financial Information (GIIF)
- State Protection Service (SOP)
- Military Intelligence Service (SWW)
- Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW)
- Polish IMINT Centre (ORO)
- 12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Base (12.BBSP)
- National Centre for Cyberspace Security (NCBC)
- Criminal Directorate of the Military Gendarmerie Headquarters (ZK KGŻW)
- Reconnaissance Group of 3rd Ship Flotilla (gOR 3.FO)
- Centre for Radioelectronic Combat Reconnaissance and Support ″Lieutenant Colonel Jan Kowalewski″ (CRiWWRE)
- 2nd Przasnysz Radioelectronic Reconnaissance Regiment (2.ORel)
- 6th Oliwa Radioelectronic Reconnaissance Regiment ″Admiral Arendt Dickman″ (6.ORel)
- Military Unit NIL "Brigadier General August Emil Fieldorf «Nil»" (JW NIL)
- Ministry of Public Security - Department of Security (MBP-UB)
- Security Service (SB)
- Office for State Protection (UOP)
- Internal Revenue Intelligence
- Polish Military Organisation (POW)
- Second Department of Polish General Staff
- Cipher Bureau
- Polish Agency of Trade Information
- Estezet
- Border Protection Corps
- Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army
- Internal Military Service (WSW)
- Military Information Services (WSI)
- National Centre for Cryptology (NCK)