POLISH INTRIGUES AMONG THE WENDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003000390008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 2, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/21: CIA-RDP82-00457R003000390008-2
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RREPOR'i
N OR 1AT! N REPOMI- CD NO.
.COUNTRY Pol, ,nxd/Gerr nay
SUBJECT Polish Intrigues among the Uends
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I.. The Polish ;overnr-ent is atte!'pting to maintain close political and cultural
one Czyi (fnu), who is said to live in Prague. 50X1-HUM
3. WJendi.sh affairs are handled in the Pol.i.nh Uilitary Mission in t3orlin b-~ Cart.
relations with Vie ; Iendish population of Brandenburg and Saxony*., and So in
touch with individual leaders of this ninority group. Arntong these leaders
Contact Trith the :)ends is sponsored by a Polish organization called Zt , ~-z k
Zachodnt (Western Association)'and by its subsidiary Pro.4ui, which has its
headquarters In Posen under the leadership of a ran maned Nowlca (fnu). This
or: nization, with the support of the Polish government, is engaged in en-
courargi;:ig any leanings ar-on ; the 'Tends toward the creation of an "autonomous"
' Jend i sh state y
Cocy ry a Szy rf s1 ,f the political propar'anda section of the
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rn-I .fiaina cor ication- T'ri.th the 'inndishz center in I3autzon (Sa
of a courier service. The courier is na^ad Patrol Ihxdzik,
xony) by =cans
gLm, t% This Is no innovation; shnilar activity aranng the 'Jends 1,ns
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carried on by the Polish government before 1939.
CONFIDENTIAL
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CLASSIFICATION""=
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDEN;"IAL in accordance with the
letter of 18 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
CONFIDENTIAL P, A
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/21: CIA-RDP82-00457R003000390008-2