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"T"

"T" a designation used for the activities related to the "T" division, i.e. the operative technics division, activities (means of operative technology), information and documents (notes, summaries, transcripts from room or telephone wiretaps, recordings, photographs and films from surveillance and photographic documentation, protocols of secret searches).


"T", PION | "T" DIVISION

"T", division a term for Security Service (SB) units tasked with setting up, using and removing means of operative technology on the orders of SB operative units. The "T" division comprised the Department of Technology of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and the "T" divisions of SB field units (Provincial Headquarters of the Citizens' Militia – KWMO, from 1983, Provincial Office of the Internal Affairs – WUSW, KSMO and from 1983, Metropolitan Office of the Internal Affairs –SUSW) and the "T" sections of the Operative Securing Divisions.







TAJNY WSPÓŁPRACOWNIK (TW)

Tajny współpracownik (Secret collaborator) (TW) 1. [Security Service (SB)] the primary category of cooperation with the SB, specific to the "domestic" SB divisions (i.e. outside Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs). The TW category was formally introduced by Operative Instruction No. 03/60 of 1960 in place of the categories ‘resident’ (liaison) (rezydent), agent and informant (informator). However, the term had already been used to designate any category of SB collaborator or in place of the "agent" category. A TW was "a person deliberately recruited to cooperate with the Security Service and perform tasks in the prevention, recognition and detection of hostile activity", in essence, a deliberate and secret informant and executor of SB orders. The TW recruitment was preceded by the so-called preparation (‘opracowanie’) of a ‘candidate’ for secret collaborator (kandydat na tajnego współpracownika, KTW). Documents related to the TW and their activities were collected in the TW personal dossier (teczka personalna TW) and the TW service dossier (teczka pracy TW). TWs were generally obliged to sign a written letter of obligation to cooperate. However, under certain circumstances (when the SB officer considered that "for operative reasons", convincing the KTW to write such an obligation might reflect on further cooperation, and the officer had certainty, confirmed by the declarations of the collaborator, that the latter was determined to deliberately and secretly cooperate with the SB, i.e. that the recruitment had in fact taken place – in particular, this applied to persons of established high social status, e.g. university teachers and clergy). In principle, members of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) were not allowed to be recruited as TWs without the consent of the competent secretary of the provincial committee or the Central Committee, but they were recruited as an operative contact (kontakt operacyjny, KO), official contact (kontakt służbowy, KS) or consultant (konsultant); 2. [Internal Military Service (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna, WSW)] the primary category of cooperation with the WSW, most often a professional soldier (non-commissioned officer, officer) or conscripted soldier, but also a civilian employee of the army or a family member of a soldier. Documents related to the TW and their activities were collected in the TW personal dossier and reports in the TW service dossier. In the WSW practice, the so-called simplified mode of documenting the recruitment of TWs was also applied; TWs recruited in this way did not have personal dossiers – but the so-called personal card of a secret collaborator of the WSW, and their reports were placed directly in the operative case-files. A WSW TW was required to sign a written declaration containing a letter of obligationto cooperate with the WSW and to keep the cooperation secret. In principle, it was forbidden to recruit WSW TWs among generals and officers on generals’ posts, commanders of military units from regiment upwards, political officers, military prosecutors and judges and secretaries of PZPR branches; members of the PZPR could only be recruited on a "voluntary" or "material" basis. The persons mentioned above could be recruited only with a consent of the Chief of the WSW, and with the consent of the Minister of National Defense (in the case of generals and officers on generals’ posts) or with the permission of the Chief of the Main Political Directorate of the Polish Army (in the case of political officers, secretaries of the PZPR, military judges and prosecutors), or based on a decision by the WSW chiefs of military districts (in the case of commanders of military units and members of the PZPR – the latter based on "dependency").


TAJNY WSPÓŁPRACOWNIK CELNY (TWC) | SECRET PRISON COLLABORATOR

Tajny współpracownik celny (Secret prison collaborator) (TWC) a category of cooperation with the Security Service (SB); a TW who was a prisoner, recruited for surveillance of fellow prisoners, whose reports were directed to the investigation and operative units of the SB. TWCs were handled by the SB investigation units (Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, investigation divisions of SB field units) and recorded only by these units – they were not registered in the indexing and registry instruments of the "C" division, and TWC files were generally weeded after the cooperation ended (or the sentence served).s


TECHNIKA OPERACYJNA, ŚRODKI | OPERATIVE TECHNOLOGY MEASURES

Technika operacyjna, środki (Operative technology measures) operative technical measures included room wiretapping (podsłuch pokojowy, PP), telephone wiretapping (podsłuch telefoniczny, PT), telegraph wiretapping (podsłuch telegraficzny, PTG), photographically documented surveillance (podgląd dokumentowany fotograficznie, PDF) and secret search (tajne przeszukanie, TP); however, in fact, "operative technology measures" also included external wiretapping (podsłuch zewnętrzny, PEZEW). Only the Department of Technology of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and the "T" division units were authorized to use "operative technology measures", with few exceptions ("B" division and division II units were permitted to use PEZEW, division II units were also authorized to use TP). Any material obtained by "operative technology measures", whether processed (extracts, notes, summaries) or original (transcripts of wiretaps, recordings, PTG printouts, photographs and PDF films), was to be "used and stored with the same status as agent material"; it was also forbidden to be used for trial purposes or "in a way that revealed its source".


TECZKA DYSPONENTA LK (LP, PO, LB) | LK, LP, PO, LB HOLDER DOSSIER

Teczka dysponenta LK (LP, PO, LB) (LK, LP, PO, LB holder dossier) files containing documentation on the holder of the contact premises (lokal kontaktowy, LK) (or transmission premises – lokal przejściowy, LP, reception point – punkt odbioru, PO, base premises – lokal baza, LB), etc., kept according to the rules applicable to the TW personal dossier, as well as documentation concerning the LK itself, i.e. a plan of the flat, description of its location, information on the Secret Service (SB) units using the LK, periodic assessment of the LK security and information on introducing a personal information source into the LK.


TECZKA EWIDENCJI OPERACYJNEJ NA KSIĘDZA (TEOK)

Teczka ewidencji operacyjnej na księdza (Priest operative record dossier) (TEOK) a category of the operative case and files relating to it, run by Division IV of the Security Service (SB). TEOKs were, by definition, set up by units of the SB's Division IV on every clergyman, including monks and alumni of higher seminaries; they were a form of permanent surveillance of priests. TEOKs were registered by Bureau "C" of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, recorded by the "C" divisions of the provincial headquarters of the Citizens' Militia (MO)/Provincial Office of the Internal Affairs (WUSW) and the security departments of the district headquarters of the MO/District Office of the Internal Affairs (RUSW) (in the latter only in the form of an alphabetical index). At the same time, Bureau "C" of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs kept a card-index of all clergy in the Polish People's Republic (PRL). TEOKs were labelled with a separate registration number specific to the priests dossier. The TEOK index card at Bureau "C" of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs contained information on the clergyman's personal data, place of residence, position held in the Church, university studies, academic degree, personal characteristics, trips abroad, judicial, administrative and canonical penalties, possible resignation from the clergy, death, as well as operative information on the activities of the clergyman under surveillance, "negative statements", etc. Where the SB, in the course of surveillance as part of the TEOK, obtained information which formed the basis for opening an operative case-file (SOR), the TEOK was included in the file of the SOR as its first part. Although, when the operative case was closed, the TEOK was taken out from its file; the TEOK itself was to include an extract from the operative material collected in the course of the terminated SOR. If the information obtained about a clergyman under surveillance required to initiate an operative check case-file (SOS), surveillance was conducted under rules specific to SOS as part of the TEOK without separate documentation. The TEOK was archived after the death or resignation from the clergy of the priest under surveillance. The TEOK did not include information on the agent activity of priests recruited to collaborate with the SB; the SB files of informant priests were kept separately according to the rules applicable to running of agent files (teczka personalna TW, TW personal dossier, teczka pracy TW, TW service dossier, etc.). Most TEOKs were weeded by a political decision between 1989 and 1990, and the card-index of Roman Catholic priests held by Bureau "C" of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs has been preserved.


TECZKA KANDYDATA NA TAJNEGO WSPÓŁPRACOWNIKA (KTW) | CANDIDATE FOR SECRET COLLABORATOR DOSSIER

Teczka kandydata na tajnego współpracownika (Candidate for secret collaborator dossier) (KTW) files containing documents relating to the "preparation" (‘opracowanie’) of the KTW and possibly the course of recruitment. If the recruitment was successful, the KTW dossier was transformed into a TW personal dossier. A corresponding change was made in the Security Service (SB) operative records (registration log and card-indexes). In cases where the person targeted as as a KTW refused to cooperate or the SB unit "preparing" the KTW abandoned the recruitment, the KTW dossier was filed at the Bureau "C" of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs or the relevant "C" division, depending on the SB unit. An archived KTW dossier was registered in an archival log with the symbol I (i.e. in the inventory of agent files), with the letter 'k' ("candidate") added to its archival reference number, e.g. 1234/I-k.


TECZKA KONSULTANTA

Teczka konsultanta (Consultant dossier) files containing documents on the involvement and work of a Security Service (SB) consultant. The consultant dossier contained operative material relating to the initiation of contact with a candidate for consultant, the consultant's recruitment plan, the consultant's obligation to keep secret the information and material provided by the SB, payslips and analyses and reports made by the consultant (as in the case of the operative contact (kontakt operacyjny, KO) dossier, the personal and job dossiers were not kept separately). The consultant dossiers like the candidate for secret collaborator (kandydat na tajnego współpracownika, KTW), secret collaborator (tajny współpracownik, TW), operative contact (kontakt operacyjny, KO), contact flat (lokal kontaktowy, LK) owner and secret flat (mieszkanie konspiracyjne, MK) holder dossiers were archived by recording them in an archival log with reference I.


TECZKA KONTAKTU INFORMACYJNEGO (KI) DEPARTAMENTU I MSW | DOSSIER OF INFORMATION CONTACT OF DEPARTMENT I OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Teczka kontaktu informacyjnego (KI) (Dossier of information contact of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs files containing documentation on personal and cooperation details of the KI of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, according to the rules applicable to the personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (see teczka personalna agenta Departamentu I MSW). The KI dossier was registered in the operative card-index of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs without specifying the personal data of the collaborator. The KI dossier consisted of three chapters; the KI service dossier (containing two chapters, according to the rules applicable to the service dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) was its integral part.


TECZKA KONTAKTU OPERACYJNEGO (KO) | OPERATIVE CONTACT DOSSIER

Teczka kontaktu operacyjnego (KO) (Operative contact dossier) files containing documents concerning the KO person and his or her cooperation. The KO dossier usually contained documentation concerning the establishment of contact by the Security Service (SB) with a collaborator of this category, operative material concerning the KO, payslips (or statements by officers confirming payments to the KO) and reports by the KO or notes by the KO case officer about their meetings. The KO dossiers were archived according to the rules applicable to TW personal dossiers and TW service dossiers; they were recorded in an archival log with the symbol I, i.e. in the inventory of agent files.


TECZKA KONTAKTU OPERACYJNEGO DEPARTAMENTU I MSW | DOSSIER OF OPERATIVE CONTACT OF DEPARTMENT I OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Teczka kontaktu operacyjnego Departamentu I MSW (Dossier of operative contact of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) (KO) files containing documentation concerning personal and cooperation details of operative contacts of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (kontakt operacyjny Departamentu I MSW, KO), according to the rules applicable to the personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (see agent Departamentu I MSW); the KO dossier was registered in the operative records of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs as a rule without specifying the KO's identity. The KO dossier contained three chapters; the KO service dossier, including two chapters, formed its integral part. The KO service dossier was kept according to the rules applicable to the service dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs.


TECZKA KONTAKTU SŁUŻBOWEGO (KS) | OFFICIAL CONTACT DOSSIER

Teczka kontaktu służbowego (Official contact dossier) (KS) files containing the KS documentation, maintained and archived according to the rules applicable to the secret cooperator (tajny współpracownik, TW) personal and service dossiers and the operative contact (kontakt operacyjny, KO) dossier.


TECZKA KONTROLI OPERACYJNEJ (TKO) [WSW] | OPERATIVE CONTROL DOSSIER

Teczka kontroli operacyjnej (Operative control dossier) (TKO) [WSW] a category of the Internal Military Service (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna, WSW) operative case and files containing documents produced during its conduct. TKOs were set up preventively for persons suspected of or engaged in "hostile activities" in the past and, at the time when the case was opened, admittedly not involved in such activities, "but there was a reasonable suspicion that under favourable circumstances they might [engage in hostile activity]". The TKO (alongside the operative card, see karta operacyjna) was among the operative work measures of the WSW to "prevent criminal (hostile) activity". The TKO was the WSW's equivalent to the SB's record questionnaire (kwestionariusz ewidencyjny, KE). The TKO, once closed, was included in the relevant operative case-file if the surveillance confirmed the conduct of "criminal (hostile) activity", and an operative case was initiated against the person being the subject of the TKO. Where the "reasons for setting up" the TKO ceased, i.e. the person under surveillance had completed the military service and had not engaged in activities considered "criminal" or "hostile" during the service, the dossier was weeded in the WSW operative unit without archiving it.


TECZKA KONTROLNA SPRAWY OPERACYJNEJ (SB) | CONTROL DOSSIER OF THE OPERATIVE CASE-FILE

Teczka kontrolna sprawy operacyjnej (Control dossier of the operative case-file) (SB) files containing documents of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs or Provincial Headquarters of the Citizens' Militia (KWMO)/Provincial Office of the Internal Affairs (WUSW) unit supervising the Security Service (SB) operative unit related to the supervision of the running of the operative case and the coordination of the activities of other operative units for the case in question. Control dossiers were set up in divisions of departments of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and the divisions of the KWMO/WUSW in relation to operative cases of particular importance conducted relevantly by the divisions and departments of the KWMO/WUSW and the Metropolitan Headquarters of the Citizens' Militia (MO)/Metropolitan Office of the Internal Affairs (SUSW) subordinate within the SB pillar (line of competence). When archived, control dossiers of the operative cases held at the Ministry of the Internal Affairs were marked with an archival reference number consisting of the serial number of the archival log followed by the letter "K" after the slash.


TECZKA KONTROLNA SPRAWY OPERACYJNEJ [WSW] | CONTROL DOSSIER OF THE OPERATIVE CASE-FILE

Teczka kontrolna sprawy operacyjnej (Control dossier of the operative case-file) [WSW] if an operative case conducted by an Internal Military Service (WSW) operative unit was taken under the supervision of a higher-level unit, i.e. the Directorate of the WSW or the Directorate of the Third Executive of the WSW, a control dossier of the operative case was set up; it contained "material related to the control of a specific operative case" (most often copies of the most important operative material and operative plans). The control dossier was labelled with the registration number of the operative case-file being supervised. The creation of a control dossier was communicated to Division III of the Directorate of the Fifth Executive of the WSW (i.e. the operative records unit of the WSW). The control dossier was weeded when the operative case-file under supervision was closed.


TECZKA KONTROLNA ŚLEDZTWA | CONTROL DOSSIER OF INVESTIGATION

Teczka kontrolna śledztwa (Control dossier of investigation) see akta kontrolne śledztwa (investigation control files).


TECZKA LOKALU KONSPIRACYJNEGO DEPARTAMENTU I MSW | DOSSIER OF SECRET FLAT OF DEPARTMENT I OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Teczka lokalu konspiracyjnego Departamentu I MSW (Dossier of secret flat of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) files containing documents concerning the foreign contact flat (lokal kontaktowy, LK) of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs kept according to the operative case-file by Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs; after the recruitment of the owner of the LK, the operative case-file was transformed into the personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs.


TECZKA MIESZKANIA KONSPIRACYJNEGO (MK) | CONTACT FLAT (LK), SECRET FLAT (MK) DOSSIER

Teczka lokalu kontaktowego (LK), mieszkania konspiracyjnego (MK) (Contact flat (LK), secret flat (MK) dossier) a dossier containing documents relating to the establishment, operation and liquidation of contact flat, secret flat (safehouse), base flat, transmission flat, reception point, and the preparation, recruitment and conclusion of a contract with the LK/MK holder.


TECZKA MIESZKANIA KONSPIRACYJNEGO (MK) DEPARTAMENTU I MSW | DOSSIER OF SECRET FLAT (SAFEHOUSE) (MK) OF DEPARTMENT I OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Teczka mieszkania konspiracyjnego (MK) Departamentu I MSW (Dossier of secret flat (safehouse) (MK) of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) files containing documents concerning foreign or domestic secret flat (safehouse) of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, kept according to rules concerning running operative case-file of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs. Dossiers of correspondence point (punkt korespondencyjny, PK) and secret flat (lokal konspiracyjny, LL) of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs were kept according to the same rules.


TECZKA MIESZKANIA TAJNEGO (MT), LOKALU KONTAKTOWEGO (LK) WSW | WSW SECRET FLAT (MIESZKANIE TAJNE, MT), CONTACT FLAT (LOKAL KONTAKTOWY, LK) DOSSIER

Teczka mieszkania tajnego (MT), lokalu kontaktowego (LK) WSW (WSW secret flat (mieszkanie tajne, MT), contact flat (lokal kontaktowy, LK) dossier) files concerning secret flats of the Internal Military Service (WSW) and the contact flats of the WSW were kept by the WSW officers who used these premises; in case there were several of them, the MT/LK dossier was kept by the officer appointed by the superior. WSW MT/LK dossiers (and those of their holders or owners) were to be weeded without archiving once the relevant WSW operative unit had ceased to use them; Division III of the Directorate of the Fifth Executive of the WSW was notified of the weeding of these files. On the other hand, LK dossiers were only destroyed if the reasons for which they were abandoned precluded their future use. If, despite its abandonment and discontinuation of cooperation with its holder, an LK could be used in the future by the WSW, its dossier was archived.


TECZKA OBIEKTOWA | OBJECT DOSSIER

Teczka obiektowa (Object dossier) a category of operative case and files relating to it; defined in 1955, it was replaced in 1960 by object case-file. The object dossier, together with the thematic dossiers (teczka zagadnieniowa), was "to accumulate and systematize the material reflecting the operative situation and the state of counter-intelligence activity on major and special objects of the national economy and in the field of specific issues of operative work". An object dossier was set up "for each special object and more important objects of the national economy" or groups of companies and institutions.


TECZKA OBIEKTU [WSW] | OBJECT’S DOSSIER

Teczka obiektu (Object’s dossier) [WSW] files containing the Internal Military Service (WSW) operative unit documentation concerning "the results of counter-intelligence activities in and around the military unit". The object’s dossier was set up based on a decision of the head of the counter-intelligence division of the WSW unit. The institutions towards which object’s dossiers were established included military units (i.e. units independent in terms of resources and financing), commands of tactical and operative-tactical units (brigades, divisions, corps), commands of military districts, provincial military staff and central institutions of the Ministry of Defense (e.g. directorates, institutions with competencies covering the entire armed forces). Military units without economic independence were covered by the documentation of counter-intelligence activities within an object’s dossier shared by several units or an object’s dossier concerning an economically independent military unit. The object’s dossier was closed and archived when the military unit or institution was dissolved (disbanded). The object’s dossier was a WSW equivalent to Security Service (SB)/Ministry of the Internal Affairs (MSW) object case-files.


TECZKA PERSONALNA TW | TW PERSONAL DOSSIER

Teczka personalna tajnego współpracownika (TW personal dossier) files containing documentation on the recruitment and course of cooperation with a secret collaborator (tajny współpracownik, TW). The personnel dossier contained documentation on the collaborator, their "preparation", any personal data and curriculum vitae (including information obtained by operative means), the recruitment process, the course of the collaboration and its termination. The personnel dossier contained the letter of obligation to cooperate (if collected), operative material concerning the candidate for secret collaborator (kandydat na tajnego współpracownika, KTW), and then the secret collaborator (TW), characteristics of the TW, possibly compromising or incriminating documents concerning the TW and records of payments and gifts. During the cooperation, the TW personal dossier was kept by the superior of the TW's case officer; after the TW was eliminated from the agent network (i.e. cooperation was closed), dossier was archived at Bureau "C" of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs or the "C" division of the relevant Security Service (SB) field unit and registered in the archival log with reference I. TW personal dossiers were labelled with a registration number and, as a rule, with the TW's pseudonym. After archiving, the dossier covers were also labelled with the archival reference number, category of archive material and possibly information about a reservation concerning the release of the material by the unit transferring the file to the archive (the TW personal dossier was always labelled "top secret", "secret of special significance"). The archived personal dossier was merged in a single fascicle or dossier with the TW service dossier or treated as volume one of the archived agent files. From 1981, under an agreement between the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense, the personal files of those TWs who were called up for military service, entered professional military service, were admitted to studies at military universities or took up employment in military institutions as civilian employees of the army, could (except for files restricted by SB operative units) be placed at the disposition of the Internal Military Service (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna, WSW), for the interested WSW operative unit to cooperate with the TW ("contact transfer").


TECZKA PERSONALNA AGENTA DEPARTAMENTU I MSW | PERSONAL DOSSIER OF AN AGENT OF DEPARTMENT I OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Teczka personalna agenta Departamentu I MSW (Personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) files containing documentation concerning an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (agent Departamentu I MSW); from 1980, the personal file of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs also included the service dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, hitherto constituting separate files. The personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs was created from the dossier of operative case-file by Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs concerning the recruited person. As a rule, it was still registered as a case-file without making any changes to the operative card-index and registration records.


TECZKA PERSONALNA WSPÓŁPRACOWNIKA WSW | WSW COLLABORATOR PERSONAL DOSSIER

Teczka personalna współpracownika WSW (WSW collaborator personal dossier) personal files of Internal Military Service (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna, WSW) collaborators (secret collaborator – tajny współpracownik, TW, unofficial employees – nieoficjalny pracownik, NP and unregistered collaborators: operative contacts and trusted persons; kontakt operacyjny; osoba zaufana); WSW documentation corresponding to Security Service (SB) TW personal dossiers. A personal dossier was not set up for a WSW TW recruited in a simplified procedure; such TWs only had a TW personal card (karta operacyjna). In some instances (transition to professional service, participation in major operative cases, continuation of cooperation after military service), a personal dossier was set up for TWs recruited in a simplified procedure, in which the TW personal card was included. Under the 1981 agreement on cooperation between the SB and the WSW on the use of secret collaborators, the personal files of WSW secret collaborators who had completed their service in the army or – in the case of civilian employees of the army – had been dismissed from work (except for files restricted by WSW operative units) could be transferred to the relevant SB unit for "contact transfer".


TECZKA PRACOWNIKA ZEWNĘTRZNEGO | EXTERNAL EMPLOYEE’S DOSSIER

Teczka pracownika zewnętrznego (External employee’s dossier) files containing documentation concerning the activities of an undercover officer of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs during a foreign or domestic deployment or in the other Security Service (SB) intelligence operative units (operative points/cells, punkty/ogniwa operacyjne) located outside of the Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs headquarters. The documentation collected in the ‘external employee’ dossier recorded the officer’s cover details (usually working "undercover" of another position) and his or her operative activities. Upon the officer's return to Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, the dossier was used to draw up an official assessment and analysis of operative work, only to be weeded later.


TECZKA PRACY TW | TW SERVICE DOSSIER

Teczka pracy tajnego współpracownika (TW service dossier) files containing secret collaborator (tajny współpracownik, TW) reports, copies of reports and extracts were collected, notes of the TW case officer on information provided by the collaborator only orally and material provided by the TW. The service dossier consisted of two parts: the first included a list of meetings, a list of persons appearing in the material and a list of persons who had read the material; the second included the original reports of the collaborator and the original notes of the case officer based on the information provided by the collaborator orally. The service dossier intentionally did not include material that could identify the TW, as such material was collected in the TW personal dossier (see teczka personalna tajnego współpracownika). The TW service dossier was labelled with a registration number and usually with the TW's pseudonym. During the course of cooperation, the service dossier remained in the disposition of the secret collaborator's case officer. If it contained several volumes, the oldest ones were filed in Bureau "C" of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs or The "C" division of the SB field unit and labelled "active", where they were registered in the archival log with reference I. If the TW service dossier was not voluminous, it was combined into a single fascicle or dossier with the TW personal dossier after archiving.


TECZKA PRACY AGENTA DEPARTAMENTU I MSW

Teczka pracy agenta Departamentu I MSW (Service dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) files containing "[...] a collection of documents and information concerning the agent's overall work, tasks and instructions, analyses and evaluations"; since 1980, the service dossiers of agents of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs had been merged into the personal dossiers of agents of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs. In practice, most documents, especially reports and other operative material contained in the service dossiers of agents of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, were weeded at the moment they were filed in the archive of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, their copies or extracts were included in the relevant thematic dossiers of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (see teczka tematyczna). The agent's service dossiers were not separately registered (they were labelled with a registration number specific to the agent's personal dossier). This service dossier was issued to the case officer after recruitment (without notifying in the operative card-index of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs).


TECZKA PRACY WSPÓŁPRACOWNIKA WSW

Teczka pracy współpracownika WSW (WSW collaborator service dossier) service dossiers of Internal Military Service (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna, WSW) collaborators (secret collaborator – tajny współpracownik, TW, unofficial employee – nieoficjalny pracownik, NP, and unregistered collaborators: operative contacts and trusted persons; kontakt operacyjny, osoba zaufana) containing their reports (denunciations). The service dossiers of the WSW secret collaborators were not set up for TWs recruited in a simplified procedure; their reports were filed in the relevant operative case-files and the WSW object’s dossiers. Only the service dossiers of collaborators who took part (were used) in operative cases concerning "[...] espionage, subterfuge, sabotage, terror, hostile political underground", and those who, before ending their cooperation with the WSW, fled abroad or refused to return to the country (after leaving the country legally), were to be placed in the WSW archive.


TECZKA PUNKTU KORESPONDENCYJNEGO (PK) DEPARTAMENTU I MSW | DOSSIER OF CORRESPONDENCE POINT (PK) OF DEPARTMENT I OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Teczka punktu korespondencyjnego (PK) Departamentu I MSW (Dossier of correspondence point (PK) of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) files containing documents concerning the owner (holder) of the correspondence point (letter drop box) abroad, i.e. a flat whose address was lent to the Security Service (SB) intelligence for secret correspondence. The dossier of a PK of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs located abroad was kept according to the rules of operative case-file of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs. After the PK owner (holder) recruitment, it was transformed into the personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs.


TECZKA REZYDENTURY, PUNKTU/OGNIWA OPERACYJNEGO DEPARTAMENTU I MSW

Teczka rezydentury, punktu/ogniwa operacyjnego Departamentu I MSW (Dossier of ‘residency’/operative point/cell of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) files containing documents concerning "[...] the organization, functioning, scope of tasks, plans of operative work and reports on their implementation, as well as personnel matters of ‘residents’ [i.e. supervisors of the intelligence post], points and operative cells in the country and abroad"; this dossier also included lists of agents of the post unit (‘residency’, rezydentura), evaluation of their work, evaluation of the work of the ‘resident’ and his or her subordinates.


TECZKA ROZPRACOWANIA OBIEKTOWEGO DEPARTAMENTU I MSW | OBJECT CASE-FILE OF THE DEPARTMENT I OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Teczka rozpracowania obiektowego Departamentu I MSW (Object case-file of the Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) files containing documentation on object case run by Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs. This dossier consisted of two chapters; in "cases justified by operative or organisational needs", an additional sub-dossier of object case-file by Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs was set up.


TECZKA ROZPRACOWANIA OPERACYJNEGO DEPARTAMENTU I MSW | OPERATIVE CASE-FILE OF THE DEPARTMENT I OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Teczka rozpracowania operacyjnego Departamentu I MSW (Operative case-file of the Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs) a file category concerning operative case run by Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (cf. service dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs; teczka pracy agenta Departamentu I MSW); the dossier consisted of two chapters marked I and III. Chapter I included documentation on the opening of the case and operative material on the "figurehead" (i.e. main person of interest), a plan of operative undertakings, operative material on the person under surveillance (or recruited for cooperation), the material on the "collaborator control", correspondence with other units of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and other Security Service (SB) cells concerning the person of interest, a decision on closing the case and its archiving. Chapter III contained, among other items, documentation concerning expenses incurred in the conduct of the case, including decisions and conclusions concerning the remuneration of a collaborator, payslips for a collaborator or case officers' declarations on payments made to a collaborator or other expenses incurred; in the case of the recruitment of a person under surveillance in the course of the operative case, the operative case-file was transformed into a personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs. As a result, Chapter II of the dossier was created (cf. teczka personalna agenta Departamentu I MSW; personal dossier of an agent of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs). Chapter II contained, i.a., a recruitment plan and a plan for the use of the recruited person as part of the cooperation, a report on the course of the recruitment, a letter of obligation of the collaborator (or a cooperation agreement), periodic information on the collaborator, an agreement  on the manner and means of establishing communication (contact, calling a meeting, transfer of material) with officers of Department I of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs.


TECZKA ZAGADNIENIOWA | THEME DOSSIER

Teczka zagadnieniowa (Theme dossier) a category of operative case and files relating to it; defined in 1955, it was replaced in 1960 by object case (sprawa obiektowa). The theme dossier, together with the object dossiers, was "to accumulate and systematize the material reflecting the operative situation and the state of counter-intelligence work on major and special objects of the national economy and in the field of specific issues of operative work".


TECZKA ZAGADNIENIOWA WSW | WSW THEME DOSSIER

Teczka zagadnieniowa WSW (WSW theme dossier) a category of Internal Military Service (WSW) files that served "[...] to collect the material [...] concerning the identification of foreign special services, anti-socialist groupings and centres of ideological diversion, counter-intelligence protection of flying personnel of military air units (the Air Force, Polish Air Defense Force and the Navy), counter-intelligence protection of the Navy's seagoing personnel, counter-intelligence protection of secrets, counter-intelligence protection of weapons and other means of combat, counter-penetration of military units (objects)"; the documents included in the theme dossier concerned issues, processes and situations as opposed to operative cases against individuals or object’s dossiers concerning specific military units and institutions. The theme dossier was archived when the WSW unit's "interest" in an issue or theme expired.