ORGANIZATION (SANITIZED) OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 9, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Poland
SUIJECT Organization
of Foreign Airairs
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Organization
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1. The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairswis divided into political and admin-
istrative divisions, each of which is responsible to a deputy minister. There
are, furthermore, some units of the ministry which are subordinated directly
to the minister.
2. The Political Division is divided into geographical units, of which the
following are known:
e. Department V: the Far East, the Near East, and Africa. This department,
originally a section, was raised to its present status in May or June
of 1951x.
b. Department II: Western Europe,
c. Department III: the United States, United Kingdom, and the British
Commonwealth.
d. Department IV: Germany, both East and West, and Austria.
a. Department I: the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Albania, Bulgaria,
Hungary, and Yugoslavia
3. The Consular Section is assumed to be subordinate to the Political Division.
The Department for Economic and International Affairs (Departament
Miedzynarodowych Organizacjej Politycznych Ekonomycznych) and the Press
and Information Department, both being functional departments and both
serving all geographical departments, are controlled by the deputy minister
for political affairs.
The following sections are subordinated to the deputy minister for admin-
istrative affairs:
a. Administrative Department (Departament Administracyjny).
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b. Personnel Department (Departament Kadri).
5. The following units, of less than department status, are directly
responsible to the ministerial secretariat (kabinet ministra):
a. Chancery (lanoelaria Glown&).,with the status of a branch (wydzial).
The courier service is a section (referat) within the chancery.
b. Office of the Legal Adviser (Biuro Prawno Traktatowe).
c. Special Fund (Funduszow Specialnyoh)., with the status of an
independent section (referat).
d. Division for the Affairs of Poles Abroad (Wydzial Polonii
Zagranica)7with the status of a branch,
e. Communications,with the status of a section (referat).
f. Code and Cipher Section,with the status of a section (referat).
6. In 1919 Department I of the Political Division was composed of a USSR
branch, a Czechoslovakian branch, and a Trans-Danubian branch. The
Trans-Danubian branch was divided into a Yugoslav section, a Rumanian
and Hungarian section, and a Bulgarian and Albanian section. This is
assumed to be a typical breakdown of a department of the Political
Division.
7. The Administrative Department had a finance branch, a control branch,
a central stores and supplies branch, and a supplies to representations
abroad branch. The Personnel Department had a home personnel branch, a
personnel abroad branch, and a files branch.
8. The proportion of officials concerned with administration at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs is judged to be unusually high, more than 50 percent.
The political departments cannot be filled because of the lack of suitable
personnel. In many cases, an official must take charge of several sections
and spread his work over all of them, thus making for inefficient manage- 25X1
ment of all the sections.
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