FALSIFICATION OF THE 1952 ELECTION RETURNS

• Document Type: CREST
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: May 4, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains informed= =eating the Na-
tions! Defense of the United Stet= Within the MOW.
het of Title 18. Sections 708 and IN, of the U.S. Code. as
amended. Its transmission or revelstion of its content,.
to or receipt by an unauthorised Person lo Prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited,
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COUNTRY Poland REPORT
SUBJECT Falsification of the 1952 DATE DISTR.
4 ;kr 1954
Election Returns
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DATE OF INFO.
REQUIREMENT
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PLACE ACQUIRED
REFERENCES
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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1. A report %It - the above subject contained
one important inaccurarr Thie error
was the use of the word "bIIOt& Ballots were not forged.
Rather, the tabulated results forwarded from the 50 Regional Electoral Com-
missions to the Main Electoral Commission in Warsaw were forged by UB personnel
before the tabulations were forwarded to the Central Committee of the PZPR.
It was therefore not necessary to forge "millions of names" as the original report
suggested. It was necessary only to forge approximately 50, and only five
persons were directly involved in the actual forging.
2. The background and details of this system have been elaborated
follows:
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a. In the 1947 Polish elections the results were forged at the Regional Elec-
toral Commission (OKW) level., There re approximately 50 such regions, with
the result that those concerned in the Central Committee of the FUR felt
that too maw persons were aware of what had taken place.
b. Prior to the 1952 elections, the following members of the CentralCommitt 50X1-HUM
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of the PZPR who are normally concerned with MBP matters studied the problf=
of election returns: Oks, Dworakowski, Alster, and Helena Kozlowaka.
other members of the Central Committee were probably aware of 50X1 HU
the decision?notably, Bierut and Berman
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c. The task of securely falsifying election returns was turned over by the 50X1-HUM
Central Committee of the PZPR
The problem
cons ? or.. e q swing individuals in the MB?: Col..Fejgin,
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Major Aleksander Szenauk (Branch III, Dept. X), Col.- Michael Taboryskil ActinL
Director Dept. II of MBP, and Major Bien of Dept. X. The group was techr4--/1-
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advised by "Magister" Konopko.
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