Recruitment by the Security Service as around-up – the Case Study

This essay sheds light on the dark sides of the recent history of Poland, in which the secret police of the People’s Republic of Poland stood guard over the socialist system. The most effective means of totalitarian control of society was to recruit secret collaborators in the so-called hostile environment. This task in the following decades required more and more “creativity” on the part of secret police officers, because on the one hand there was an increasing pressure of management for greater efficiency, and on the other hand, knowledge about the methods of operation of security organs became more common in society and at the same time its resistance to the regime increased totalitarian. A representative example is the person of Tadeusz Wielgórski, the secret police officer in Siedlce, who resorted to “creative action and bureaucracy” while working with three secret collaborators.