The Situation on the Eastern Border of Poland in the Context of Counterintelligence Report of the Border Protection Corps for 1936 : an Attempt at Analysis

In 2002, the counterintelligence reports of the Intelligence Border Protection Corps – formation set up to protect – generally speaking – the eastern Polish border, were declassified. The most important neighbor on this part of Second Polish Republic was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Therefore, the selection has been conducted so as to choose the most important parts of the report relating to specific border authority in this section is the so-called Polish-Soviet zone. In addition to statistical data, forms and methods of intelligence work, dislocation of KOP Intelligence units was analyzed. The article contains topics on the Polish side, and the most important characteristic of specific elements of the work of the then Soviet intelligence. The subject was realized on a basis of the report relating to the 1936