jaskol Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Hi, I know the podcast is generally about gold but Stefan mentions (around the 11:20 mark) that during cold war some gold was dropped over Poland to aid the resistance and has been captured by the Soviets because they've already infiltrated the movement. This seems wrong on many levels but maybe someone knows the source of this information. I'll be grateful for your help or comment. P.S. Yes, I'm Polish
Ruben Zandstra Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 I haven't researched it myself, but according to the sources this would be good place to start: http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig11/weber-c1.1.1.html I'd be interested in anything else you can find on the topic!
shirgall Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/whokilled.htm In 1951, for example, Soviet intelligence organized a fictitious underground "army" in Poland known by the acronym WIN (which stood in Polish for "Freedom and Independence"). Working through Polish exiles in London, WIN contacted the CIA and British Intelligence (SIS) and represented itself as a group commanding thousands of armed guerrillas in Poland. These claims were reinforced by a number of double agents under Soviet control, and by interceptions of police and militia radio broadcasts in Poland, which seemed to confirm that Soviet and Polish units were being harassed by guerrillas. Both the CIA and British SIS accepted WIN as a bona-fide anti-Communist "army." Thus for more than a year, the CIA parachuted to WIN forces in Poland large caches of weapons, electronic equipment, and gold bullion. It also put its own agents and Polish dissidents directly in touch with WIN commanders. In December 1952, after arresting all the agents and dissidents who had contacted WIN, Polish security forces announced over the radio sufficient details about WIN to make it clear to the CIA that it had been duped by an intelligence fraud. The WIN deception achieved a double success: it lured virtually all the resistance groups inside Poland into a trap; and it thoroughly demoralized-and discredited-the exile groups outside Poland. The fact that the CIA had inadvertently financed the deception with gold bullion was an added bonus to Soviet intelligence.
jaskol Posted January 27, 2015 Author Posted January 27, 2015 Thanks a lot guys. I knew Soviets murdered most of the people who were active in the anti-German resistance during WWII but I've never heard about them pretending to be the resistance and cash in on it. Ruben, the operation of acting as resistance was codenamed "Cezary". Couldn't find too many sources on this in english. The proceedings seem to be roughly described here: https://books.google.pl/books?id=Ng7myCguewAC&lpg=PA123&ots=LH4Vmjb6IX&hl=pl&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false but I don't know how credible this is. And it seems to present a pretty narrow view. The Polish wikipedia page about the operation states that at that moment even the Polish PM in absentia, residing in London cooperated with the Soviets.
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