Glossary

RZI (see: rzeczowe źródła informacji) material information sources.

SEE ALSO Rzeczowe źródła informacji (RZI) | Material information sources,

Rejestr spraw operacyjnych i dokumentacji operacyjnej Departamentu I MSW (Register of operative cases and operative documentation of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) a registration log of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (see: dziennik rejestracyjny). The register recorded operative cases, collaborators and other documentation, including service dossier volumes, thematic case-files, ‘resident’ (i.e. operative officers abroad, see rezydent) dossiers, correspondence binders etc.

SEE ALSO Dziennik rejestracyjny | Registration log, Instrukcja 1980a,

Rejestracja (Registration) a set of activities to enter into card-indexes and other means of recording (registration logs) information on operative cases conducted by the Security Service (SB) and persons, institutions and events of "operative interest" to the SB.

SEE ALSO Rejestracja | Registration, Rejestracja KTW i kandydatów do innych kategorii współpracy, Rejestracja TW i innych kategorii współpracowników, Rejestracja zasadzek, ZPO i SPZ, Rejestracja śledztw (postępowań przygotowawczych), Rejestracja materiałów wstępnych, Rejestracja kontaktów operacyjnych i zainteresowań operacyjnych, Rejestracja faktów i zdarzeń, Rejestracja notatek, informacji, opracowań problemowych, Rejestracja spraw operacyjnych, teczek kontrolnych spraw operacyjnych i osób objętych sprawami operacyjnymi, Rejestracja osób niepożądanych w PRL, Rejestracja zakazów („zastrzeżeń”) wyjazdów zagranicznych, Rejestracja, inne środki ewidencyjne, Rejestracja księży katolickich, Rejestracja parafii katolickich, Rejestracja w ewidencji operacyjnej Departamentu I MSW, Zabezpieczenie (zabezpieczenie operacyjne) | ‘Securing’ (operative ’securing’), Instrukcja 1970a, Instrukcja 1972b, Wytyczne 1972,

Rezydent (‘Resident’) 1. a ‘resident’ of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs – a clandestine operative officer of the foreign intelligence (Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) officially employed by a diplomatic or commercial representation office of the Polish People's Republic (PRL) (so-called ‘post residency’) or "illegally employed", i.e. without diplomatic or consular status and without formal relations with any diplomatic representation of the PRL (so-called ‘illegal residency’), actually directing the work of other operative officers of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs in the post, i.e. the head of the ‘residency’ (‘rezydentura’); see teczka rezydentury, punktu/ogniwa operacyjnego Departamentu I MSW (‘residency’ dossier, operative point/cells of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs). 2. rezydent (łącznik) ‘resident’ (liaison) – a category of cooperation with the Security Office (UB), functioning in the instructions on operative work of 1945, 1953 and 1955, in the instruction on operative work of 1960 listed as a subcategory of secret collaborator, abandoned after 1970, but functioning in the operative practice of the SB; an agent could become a ‘resident’ and was usually entrusted with handling several informants; exceptionally, meetings with agents were allowed. The most trusted collaborators of the UB/SB were selected as ‘residents’, preferably former UB/SB officers, discharged from service at their request or for health reasons, causing no disciplinary concerns. ‘Residents’ relayed handling officers' instructions to UB/SB informants, handed them their remuneration and collected denunciations. "Residencies" were set up to make the work of the UB/SB officers more secretive. ‘Resident’ files were ran according to the rules applicable to secret collaborator personal and service dossiers.

SEE ALSO Teczka rezydentury, punktu/ogniwa operacyjnego Departamentu I MSW, Tajny współpracownik (TW), Agent | Agent of ..., Informator | Informant, Oficer prowadzący | Case officer, Teczka personalna TW | TW personal dossier, Teczka pracy TW | TW service dossier, Instrukcja 1945, Instrukcja 1953, Instrukcja 1955b, Instrukcja 1960a, Wytyczne 1972,

Rozkaz (Order) a category of service regulations. A single written instruction from the Minister of the Internal Affairs relating to the functioning of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (its individual units), the establishment of ad hoc structures within the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, the introduction and termination of a state of high alert, etc.

Rozkaz personalny (Personal order) a document confirming a change in the official status of an officer of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, such as a change of duty assignment, change of rank, pay, job, a trip, etc.

Rozpracowanie obiektowe Departamentu I MSW (Object case-file of the Department I of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) a category of operative case. Object case-file was launched in Deparment I of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on “objects, groups, organizations, themes or periodical tasks”. Actually, the object case-files were initiated most often towards foreign institutions and Polish émigré circles. The object case-files of the Departament I MSW was registered in the Samodzielna Sekcja Ewidencji (Independent Registry Section), then the Wydział XVIII (Division XVIII) of the Department I MSW, the closed files were archived there.

SEE ALSO Wydział XVIII Departamentu I MSW, Teczka rozpracowania operacyjnego Departamentu I MSW | Operative case-file of the Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, Instrukcja 1972a,

Rozpracowanie operacyjne Departamentu I MSW (Operative case-file of the Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) a category of operative case. Operative case-files were initiated against persons residing outside the Polish People's Republic (PRL) to identify recruitment opportunities or "hostile activity against the PRL or the countries of the socialist community"; in the event of the recruitment of a person subject to this case, the case-file was to be transformed into a personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (see teczka personalna agenta Departamentu I MSW). Agents of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs were registered as “operative case-file persons of interest”. The operative case-file by Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs was registered in the Samodzielna Sekcja Ewidencji (Independent Registry Section), then the Wydział XVIII (Division XVIII) of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs; after the case was closed, its files were archived there.

SEE ALSO Teczka personalna agenta Departamentu I MSW | Personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, Teczka pracy agenta Departamentu I MSW, Teczka rozpracowania operacyjnego Departamentu I MSW | Operative case-file of the Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, Wydział XVIII Departamentu I MSW, Instrukcja 1980a,

Rzeczowe źródła informacji (Material information sources) (RZI) 1. [Security Service (SB)] a collective term for non-personal information sources. The term ‘material information sources’ (RZI) included operative technical measures, observation, room searches, archival material, records, documents and objects, fingerprints, encryption paraphernalia and secret messages. In particular, material information sources (RZI) included documents produced through wiretapping ("T" documents), observation, covert searches, covert searches of passport and identity card files and documentation held by non-SB institutions, covert inspections of correspondence ("W" documents), and finally documents of all kinds produced, found or requisitioned by the SB.

SEE ALSO Osobowe źródło informacji (OZI) | Personal information source, Obserwacja | Observation, surveillance, Technika operacyjna, środki | Operative technology measures, Podsłuch pokojowy (PP) | Room wiretapping, Podsłuch telefoniczny (PT) | Telephone wiretapping, Podgląd i dokumentacja fotograficzna (podgląd dokumentowany fotograficznie, PDF) | photographically documented surveillance, Dokument "T", Dokument "W":, Instrukcja 1970a, Kartoteki, Akta paszportowe, Instrukcja 1989, Instrukcja WSW 1984,