Glossary

Kandydat na tajnego współpracownika (KTW) (Candidate for secret collaborator) a person selected by the Security Service (SB) for recruitment as a secret collaborator. A candidate for secret collaborator (KTW) was subject to the so-called "elaboration", i.e. the procedure of collecting data concerning them and gathering material of an operative nature, i.e. extracts from SB operative records, reports by SB collaborators, extracts from operative cases. "Elaboration" or “preparation” of a KTW, in principle, was no different from surveillance; it was done to establish their suitability for the SB, their attitude to the SB, the nature and type of their contacts and the motivations that might guide them during cooperation. "Preparation" of a KTW could also lead to establishing the basis for recruitment – i.e. obtaining "compromising material", "incriminating material", or determining the KTW's intentions regarding potential cooperation – e.g. material motivation or "sense of civic responsibility for security and public order" (i.e. willingness to cooperate).

SEE ALSO Tajny współpracownik (TW), Akta paszportowe, Doniesienie, Podsłuch telefoniczny (PT) | Telephone wiretapping, Praca "W" | “W” work, Teczka kandydata na tajnego współpracownika (KTW) | Candidate for secret collaborator dossier, Instrukcja 1970a,

Kartoteka ogólnoinformacyjna (KOI) (General information card-index) card-index of ongoing and closed Security Service (SB) operative procedures. The general information card-index was kept by Division III of Bureau "C" of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (division "C" of local units) and mainly consisted of EO-4-A index-cards concerning current operative activities (they contained personal data of the person of "operative interest" and information on the registration number and the unit managing the case) and E-14 (E-14/1), concerning closed operative cases and personal information sources (osobowe źródło informacji, OZI) eliminated from the agent network (they contained complete personal details of the registered person, category of operative case or cooperation, reasons for terminating the case or eliminating the collaborator from the agent network, unit managing the case and the archival reference number). ‘Securing’ measures of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs were also included in the KOI to eliminate the possibility of uncontrolled registration of the "operative interest" by another SB unit in a specific person. The KOI of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs also included information on persons registered "actively" by the Internal Military Service (WSW – military counter-intelligence), WSW of the military units of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, Reconnaissance Division of the Border Protection Troops, Second Directorate of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (military intelligence) and on persons registered as allowed access to secret documents, persons who were forbidden to travel abroad ("restricted", restriction, foreign travel restriction), persons under investigation, etc. The general information card-index of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs was also known as the Central General Information Card-Index because, in addition to registrations made by units of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, it included information on registrations by Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and other above-mentioned services of the apparatus of terror, as well as index-cards concerning persons registered by the SB territorial operative units. Each "C" division of a SB field unit kept its own KOI, containing index-cards relating to registrations made exclusively by the operative cells of the relevant SB territorial unit.

SEE ALSO Wydział III Biura "C" MSW, Wydział "C" | "C" Deparament, Biuro "C" MSW, Numer rejestracyjny | Registration number, Osobowe źródło informacji (OZI) | Personal information source, Zabezpieczenie (zabezpieczenie operacyjne) | ‘Securing’ (operative ’securing’), Zastrzeżenie | Restriction, Zastrzeżenie wyjazdów zagranicznych | Foreign travel restriction, Numer archiwalny | Archival reference number, Koordynacja, Rejestracja | Registration,

Kontakt informacyjny Departamentu I MSW (kontakt informacyjny (KI) (Information contact of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) a category of cooperation with Security Service (SB) foreign intelligence branch with a lower degree of operative involvement. Information contact (KI) was to be a person permanently residing outside the Polish People's Republic (PRL), knowingly or unknowingly cooperating with SB intelligence, i.e. providing information and documents, with SB intelligence relations depending on the circumstances, generally not meeting the criteria for agent recruitment. In the case of KI, who were citizens of the PRL, cooperation with SB intelligence was always deliberate, usually documented by an "intelligence work agreement", a form of a letter of obligation to cooperate.

Kontakt operacyjny (KO) (Operative contact) a category of cooperation with the Security Service (SB). The KO category was formally introduced by Operative Instruction No. 006/70 of 1970. Still, it had already been in operation before that and included the confidential contact category (see kontakt poufny, KP), which had existed until 1970. KOs were not required to submit a written declaration of obligation to cooperate or written denunciations. Although KO was a category of cooperation of a lower rank than secret collaborator (tajny współpracownik, TW), in practice, KOs were often full-fledged collaborators of the SB; moreover, due to the lack of a requirement for formal recruitment, it was a form of cooperation established most often with members of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR).

SEE ALSO Kontakt poufny (KP) | Confidential contact, Tajny współpracownik (TW), Zabezpieczenie (zabezpieczenie operacyjne) | ‘Securing’ (operative ’securing’), "C", pion, Rejestracja kontaktów operacyjnych i zainteresowań operacyjnych, Teczka kontaktu operacyjnego (KO) | Operative contact dossier, Instrukcja 1970a, Instrukcja 1972b, Instrukcja 1960a,

Kontakt operacyjny Departamentu I MSW (Operative contact of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) a category of cooperation with Security Service (SB) foreign intelligence branch of the highest degree of operative engagement. Operative contact (kontakt operacyjny, KO) of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs was to be a citizen of the Polish People's Republic (PRL), permanently residing in Poland, recruited for secret collaboration with SB intelligence, knowingly carrying out commissioned intelligence tasks outside the PRL. This category corresponded to an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (see agent Departamentu I MSW).

SEE ALSO Teczka kontaktu operacyjnego Departamentu I MSW | Dossier of operative contact of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, Agent Departamentu I MSW | Agent of ..., Instrukcja 1972a,

Kontakt poufny (Confidential contact, KP) a semi-formal category of cooperation with the Security Service (SB), functioning until 1970. No written letters of declaration of cooperation were requested from KPs, nor were they required to draw up a handwritten personal history, nor did they choose pseudonyms (the pseudonym was given to them by an SB operative officer without the KP's knowledge. The KP category was used until the late 1960s as a category of cooperation (and registration) in parallel with the categories of citizen contact (see kontakt operacyjny, KO) and official contact (see kontakt służbowy, KS). The KP category was applied to people who could not be recruited as secret collaborators (see tajny współpracownik, TW) for formal reasons (members of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), people holding senior positions), with whom "loose contact" was maintained, or could not be recruited as TWs for "operative" reasons.

SEE ALSO Kontakt operacyjny (KO) | Operative contact, Kontakt służbowy (KS) | Official contact, Tajny współpracownik (TW), Agent | Agent of ..., Informator | Informant, Pseudonim (ps.) | Pseudonym, Pomoc obywatelska | Citizen assistance, Instrukcja 1970a, Instrukcja 1960a, Wytyczne 1957,

Kontakt służbowy (Official contact, KS) a category of cooperation with the Security Service (SB). An employee of a company or public office (usually in a managerial position) who provided information to the SB due to their position was defined as a KS. The KS was not required to give a written letters of collaboration with the SB. In practice, a KS was a typical form of SB contact with supervisors or senior staff in institutions covered by object cases (see sprawa obiektowa) or as part of the surveillance (or elaboration of a candidate for secret collaborator – KTW) of their subordinates. Members of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) in leadership positions also were assigned a KS status.

SEE ALSO Sprawa obiektowa | Object case-file, Kandydat na tajnego współpracownika (KTW) | Candidate for secret collaborator, Instrukcja 1970a, Instrukcja 1960a,

Kryptonim (Cryptonym) a word used to denote an operative case, object, means of operative technology or activity in order to conceal identifiable information. Cryptonyms were also given to contact premises, safehouses and safe flats, dead-drop boxes, etc., surveilled objects (object case), room and telephone wiretaps and bugged objects, operative schemes and other covert actions by Security Service (SB) operative units (see pseudonim, i.e. pseudonym).

SEE ALSO Technika operacyjna, środki | Operative technology measures, Pseudonim (ps.) | Pseudonym, Lokal kontaktowy (LK) | Contact flat, Mieszkanie konspiracyjne (MK) | secret flat, safehouse, Martwa skrzynka | Dead-letter drop-box, Sprawa obiektowa | Object case-file, Podsłuch pokojowy (PP) | Room wiretapping, Podsłuch telefoniczny (PT) | Telephone wiretapping, Kombinacja operacyjna, Figurant,

Kwestionariusz ewidencyjny (Record questionnaire) (KE) a category of operative case and files relating to it. KEs were set up for individuals who were not engaged in "hostile" activities when the case was opened but who had a record of the previous anticommunist activity or a history of surveillance and could potentially threaten the regime. KEs were also generally started by the Security Service (SB) Division II units for diplomats of Western European countries and the USA. The purpose of keeping a KE was to routinely scrutinise the activities of individuals once of operative interest to the SB or with a record due to "anti-state" statements. As a form of operative procedure, KE functioned as an operative case and registration category as early as 1966. KE files were archived at Bureau "C" of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs or "C" divisions of the SB field units and were registered in the archival log (see dziennik archiwalny) under reference II or sometimes IV.

SEE ALSO Sprawa obserwacji operacyjnej | Operative observation case-file, Figurant, Biuro "C" MSW, Wydział "C" | "C" Deparament, Dziennik archiwalny | Archival log, Materiały operacyjne | Operative material, Doniesienie, Numer rejestracyjny | Registration number, Archiwizacja, Numer archiwalny | Archival reference number, Instrukcja 1970a,