Ministry of Public Security

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The Ministry of Public Security was the secret police and internal security apparatus of the early communist Polish state, responsible for political repression and surveillance.

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instanceOf government ministry
secret police agency
alsoKnownAs MBP
Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego
UB
country Poland
dissolvedIn 1954
employed informant network
secret police officers
establishedIn 1944
headquartersLocation Warsaw
historicalAssessment instrument of Stalinist terror in Poland
ideology communism
influencedBy Soviet MGB
NKVD
surface form: Soviet NKVD
jurisdiction Polish People’s Republic
surface form: Polish People's Republic
legalBasis decrees of the communist authorities
notableUnit Department for Fighting the Reactionary Underground
political investigation departments
operationalMethods blackmail
forced confessions
infiltration of organizations
surveillance
wiretapping
oversightBy Soviet security advisers
partOf communist security apparatus of Poland
replacedBy Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego
surface form: Committee for Public Security (Poland)

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Polish People's Republic
surface form: Ministry of Internal Affairs (Poland)
responsibleFor arbitrary arrests
censorship enforcement
counterintelligence
internal security
labor camp administration
monitoring of the Catholic Church
persecution of political opponents
political repression
show trials
suppression of anti-communist resistance
surveillance of the population
torture during interrogations
subordinateTo Polish Committee of National Liberation
Polish United Workers' Party
Provisional Government of National Unity (Poland)
targeted Home Army
surface form: Home Army veterans

anti-communist underground
intellectuals critical of the regime
non-communist political parties
timePeriod early communist era in Poland

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Resort Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego translatedName Ministry of Public Security
Secretary of Public Security mayHead Ministry of Public Security
this entity surface form: ministry of public security
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Second Polish Republic followedBy Ministry of Public Security
this entity surface form: Ministry of Public Security of the Polish People’s Republic