List of intelligence agencies of Poland

List of intelligence agencies of Poland:

Second Polish Republic (1918-1939)[]

• at the National Police Headquarters (przy Komendzie Głównej Policji Państwowej (IDP KGPP)_
• Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego WP – military intelligence and counterintelligence
  • Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau) – radio espionage, cryptography

World War II[]

People's Polish Republic (1944-1990)[]

• , RBP – (1944–1945)
• Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego, MBP – (1945–1954) (Ministry of Public Security)
• , Kds.BP – (1954–1956) '
• Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych (Ministry of Internal Affairs)
  • Służba Bezpieczeństwa Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych (Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs)
    • - foreign
    • - counterespionage
    • - (1982–1989) - focusing on domestic opposition
• (1945–1951)
• (1951–1990)
  • , AWO
• , GZI (WP/MON/Kds.BP) – (1945–1957)
• Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna MON, WSW MON (1957–1990) (Internal Military Service)

Poland (1990-2019)[]

• Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (2002–present) (Internal Security Agency, ABW), since 2002
• Agencja Wywiadu (2002–present) (Intelligence Agency, AW), since 2002
• Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne (2006–present) (Central Anticorruption Bureau, CBA) - focused on investigations connected with all kinds of financial crimes.
• Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego - from 2006 (SKW) - counterespionage
• - from 2006 (SWW) - espionage
• General Police Headquarters of Poland (KGP) (criminal intelligence) since 1990
  • Bureau of Criminal Intelligence and Information (each of the Voivodeship Police Commands has also a corresponding department) since 2016
  • Centralne Biuro Śledcze Policji (CBŚP) (Central Investigations Bureau of the Police) since 2002
• (GIIF) (financial intelligence) since 2005
• (1998–2017) (Internal Revenue Intelligence of the Ministry of Finance), replaced by the Tax and Customs Service
• Urząd Ochrony Państwa (Office for State Protection, UOP) - replaced on 29 June 2002 by ABW and AW,
• Wojskowe Służby Informacyjne (Military Information Services, WSI) replaced on 30 September 2006 by SKW and
• Tax and Customs Service (SCS) (tax intelligence) since 2017
• National Centre for Cryptology (2013-2019) (military SIGINT and cryptology), replaced by the National Centre for Cyberspace Security
• (NCBC - National Centre for Cyberspace Security) (military SIGINT, cyberwarfare and cryptology) since 2019

Poland (2019-present)[]

• Agencja Wywiadu (AW) (Foreign Intelligence Agency, also principal SIGINT and IMINT agency)
• Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW) (Internal Security Agency - domestic and counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, counter-extremism, domestic SIGINT)
• (SWW) (Military Intelligence Service including SIGINT and IMINT)
• Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego (SKW) (Military Counter-intelligence Service including SIGINT)
• Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne (CBA) (Central Anticorruption Bureau)
• General Police Headquarters of Poland (KGP) (criminal intelligence)
  • Biuro Wywiadu i Informacji Kryminalnych (BWiIK) (Bureau of Criminal Intelligence and Information)
    • Each of the Voivodeship Police Commands has also a corresponding department
  • Centralne Biuro Śledcze Policji (CBŚP) (Central Investigations Bureau of the Police)
• Zarząd Operacyjno-Śledczy Komendy Głównej Straży Granicznej (ZOŚ KGSG) (Operations and Investigations Directorate of the Border Guard Headquarters) - border, immigration, air traffic and related criminal intelligence
• Służba Ochrony Państwa (SOP) - intelligence concerning personal security of principal state officials
• Straż Marszałkowska (SM) - intelligence concerning security of the houses of Parliament
• Criminal Directorate of the Military Gendarmerie Headquarters (ZK KGŻW)
• Tax and Customs Service (SCS) (tax intelligence)
• (GIIF) (financial intelligence)

Other contemporary military units involved in:

• IMINT
  • (ORO)
  • 12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Base (12.BBSP)
  • (JW NIL)
• SIGINT
  • Reconnaissance Group of 3rd Ship Flotilla (gOR 3.FO)
  • (CRiWWRE)
  • (2.ORel)
  • (6.ORel)
  • (JW NIL)
  • (NCBC) - National Centre for Cyberspace Security) (SIGINT, cyberwarfare and cryptology)

See also[]

• History of Polish intelligence services