Historical Calendar – Anniversary successful actions of communist executionersWho killed the double agent, Władysław Mroz.
Today in our calendar we will look at the competitions between PRL interviews and France in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Just after planet War II, Władysław Frost joined MO. At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, he held an intelligence course at the Officers' School and was promoted to lieutenant. He then began working in a Peerel interview. He was appreciated as “he had his own initiative and did his work conscientiously, rapidly and with any sense.” Moreover, he was characterized by the ability to keep a secret. At the same time, however, the superiors saw that "there are inactive any shortcomings in working with the agentura and that it does not have appropriate training".
After all, as early as August 1950, the recently baked Lieutenant Władysław Mroz was directed to the 7th Department of the Ministry of Public safety liable for the interview. First he dealt with issues of emigration, later he was transferred to the Independent peculiar Section, in which he conducted operational work among the crews of Polish merchant ships.
During this time, he became active with a translator at MBP re-emigrant from France, Leokadia Danusiak, with whom he married in 1954. She became the origin of his demise. The hard surviving conditions in the Polish People's Republic caused her to increasingly insist on going to France. Initially, the husband objected, claiming that the authorities would never agree. But then, he started figuring out how to go to France after all.
Promoted as Lieutenant Frost, he went to the Department I interviewer. For any time he was an officer for the peculiar tasks of the Head of the I Department, Colonel Witold Sienkiewicz. This was to be paid in the future. Frost was appointed as the leader of the Legalization Group, which prepared false papers for "illegals" operating abroad. specified agents impersonated dead or missing nationals of a given country and conducted agential activities on its territory.
In this work, the officer had the thought that he and his wife and children would decision to Sekwana as “legacy”. The superiors initially rejected Mroz's application. However, he did not give up, and yet in November 1958 he obtained approval to leave, which came to effect a fewer months later.
He went over Sekwana with his wife and children as part of a household reunion. No effort was even made to prepare any false identity for him. He utilized his own name, which “probably knew the interview there.” It is hard to believe in specified a mess of Polish intelligence. However, the fact was a fact.
Indeed, the Polish agent was rapidly targeted by French counterintelligence, Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST). From any source, this service learned that Frost was active in communist intelligence.
The police called Mroz in for questioning. The case could have ended with him being expelled from the country. Therefore, the officer who wanted to stay in France at all costs asked to meet the manager of the DST. During the interview, he admitted to working for a abroad intelligence agency and agreed to become a double agent. At the same time, he requested political asylum.
During all 2 weeks of meetings, he revealed many secrets to Department I. Among another things, he revealed ways of communicating with Polish agents and their methods of losing their followers. He besides gave names of respective another illegals located by Polish intelligence on the Seine. He besides informed the amazed French that “the photograph of the head of the russian section of the DST André Guérin was hung in the area of the head of the French department I”.
Such a large information leak did not escape the attention of the KGB, which informed Warsaw about the threat.
At first, they couldn't identify the traitor. However, the suspicion rapidly fell on Władysław Mroz. And it was confirmed erstwhile the agent was discovered to have moved into a building managed by the DST, which, of course, he didn't inform his superiors about. In addition, the captain swindled in all way since the order to return to the country.
In the leadership of the peerless services, the decision to liquidate the traitor was made. The first assassination effort failed – a double agent recognized old colleagues on the street who were about to kill him. But another effort was made.
Mroz was given false information about his father's death. Then he came across an old friend. After a short conversation, he agreed to send a package to his household in Poland. Another “friends” gathering was arranged at a place that the French service did not observe.
It was October 27, 1960. During the march to an arranged place, Frost was dragged from the street into a car and taken to a garbage dump. That same day, his body was found there with a gunshot wound to the head.
Polish nationalists were wanted to be charged with the crime, so a Polish paper “National” was dropped off in France with the corpse.
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