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Fascinating new book reveals true life story of the Polish forgers who helped fool Hitler

The task of the team was to produce high quality forged documents including ID cards, passports, visas, driving licences and ration cards to help secret agents from being discovered by the Nazis. Pictured, one of the forgers Ludwik Surała. Private Archive of Dorota Żerkowska

Entitled ‘The Secrets of Station 14: Briggens House, SOE’s Forgery and Polish Elite Agent Training Station’, the book tells the history of Briggens House in Roydon, Essex, and the team of forgers established there in 1941 by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) on the orders of Churchill to “set Europe ablaze”.

Pole suspected of spying for Belarus

Polish security services have arrested a Polish citizen on suspicions of espionage for Belarusian intelligence, a spokesman for the services announced on Wednesday.

On His Majesty's secret service: The forgotten spy who made D-Day happen

Declassified documents from Britain’s security service MI5 reveal the full extent to which the man dubbed the ‘silent hero of WWII’ helped bring about the success of the Allies’ Operation D-Day.

The spy left out in the cold: Gripping new book tells extraordinary tale of Poland’s most devastating Cold War spy

The highest-ranking intelligence officer in communist Poland to ever flee the country, Michał Goleniewski exposed more than 1,600 Soviet bloc intelligence officers, and agent handlers, including notorious MI6 mole George Blake, to his handlers in the West. Now, through exclusive access to declassified top secret documents, the story of his incredible life has finally been told in a new book published this week.

Nord Stream 2 could be used for intelligence gathering - official

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea could be used for clandestine intelligence activities once it is completed, a Polish security official has claimed

English Heritage issues plea for memories of elite Polish unit that trained at UK stately home during WWII

The Cichociemni, or the Silent Unseen, were elite special-operations paratroopers trained in the UK to carry out covert operations, sabotage and intelligence-gathering in occupied Poland. Most of them completed their training at Audley End House, an early 17th-century country house outside Saffron Walden, Essex, England, one of the finest Jacobean houses in the UK.

IT company pens contract with US Homeland Security department

DataWalk’s technology will be used in the fight against organised crime and terrorism.

US daily publishes life story of late Polish war heroine

The New York Times (NYT) on Monday published a major article documenting the life of Walentyna Janta-Połczyńska, secretary and confidante to former WWII-era Polish Prime Minister in exile Władysław Sikorski, who passed away in New York in early April.

Seducer, Scoundrel, Spy: The Polish intelligence officer who seduced Berlin high society and warned Warsaw of German invasion plans

Sosnowski's reports were a goldmine for interwar Poland, but in many cases the death knell for his lovers – some of whom were beheaded.

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