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Was replaced by a Pole, Colonel Karol Bakowski. Most Soviet advisors and heads of Informacja left Poland. Military counterintelligence was placed under the control of the Chairman of Security Committee, even though the Defense Minister, Soviet Marshal Rokossovsky, remained in charge. Rokossovsky's intervention in the Informacja remained insignificant. During 1955 and 1956, radical changes were attempted in the methods of the military repression apparatus. Colonel Bakowski s bid to rehabilitate a number of victims of the security service met with Bierut's determined resistance.
Simultaneously, the most important task of SMERSH was to create a Polish military counterintelligence counterpart called Informacja. Informacja imitated the structure and modus operandi of its parent organization, including its political and police functions, going far beyond the usual scope of a counterintelligence outfit. Almost all of its leading personnel were Russians, enabling it to become later the first, most important, and most powerful instrument of Soviet domination in Poland. As the Soviet army crossed the prewar Polish frontiers in 1944, SMERSH developed its offensive activities and was entrusted with more and more purely political functions.
The liberal and revisionist elements within the PZPR were virtually eliminated from significant positions. (26) Like many other writers on the subject, the author of this statement is apparently unaware of any need to explain the contradiction between being antiMuscovite" and at the same time "virtually eliminating liberal elements. " The situation only becomes intelligible when Moczar's real role and the KGB tactics are understood. In the early sixties Moczar was elevated to Minister of Internal Affairs; the military counterintelligence was headed by another KGB agent, General Teodor Kufel.
