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Operational Invigilation of the Jesuits Participating in The eastern mission in the 1950s under the People’s Republic of Poland
Mateusz Ihnatowicz
Abstract
The article begins with the author’s outline of the political situation of a renewed Polish State. Next, he discusses the history of the Jesuit Eastern Mission in Albertyn (1924-1942).
In the second part of the article, the author presents the records of the functionaries of the Committee for Public Security to show what kind of information about the Jesuits was of interest to the state apparatus. The author tries to confirm to what extent the data collected by the state functionaries agreed with the real status quo and the present-day knowledge of this problem area. The author quotes from the documents, which is intended to render the atmosphere of the time. The documents analysed in the article only concern the time-span between 1950 and 1956.
In his concluding remarks, the author makes a short list of the operational methods used by the Security functionaries and of all the efforts they made to get the information they desired. The final part of the article focuses on the history of the Neo-Uniate Church in Poland after 1945.
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Church, invigilation, Jesuits, mission, Neo-Uniate Church, PolandDetails
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