Wars, Weapons and Terrorists: Clandestine Operations of the Polish Military Intelligence Station in Beirut, 1965–1982
Wars, Weapons and Terrorists: Clandestine Operations of the Polish Military Intelligence Station in Beirut, 1965–1982
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战争、武器和恐怖分子：贝鲁特波兰军事情报站的秘密行动，1965 年至 1982 年
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2019
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Przemysław Gasztold
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Przemysław Gasztold
摘要 本文探讨了冷战期间波兰在黎巴嫩的军事间谍活动。对最近解密的 Zarząd II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego（波兰陆军总参谋部第二委员会）档案进行彻底分析，可以重新评估 1965 年至 1982 年间贝鲁特代号“Cedr”/“Balbek”的情报站所扮演的角色。现有的档案记录挑战了波兰军事情报部门有效并实施长期间谍战略的观念。在黎巴嫩。事实上，自成立以来，该站缺乏人力情报能力，主要依赖开源数据。此外，由于1975年爆发的内战，在黎巴嫩设立特别情报站的雄心勃勃的计划因1975年爆发的内战而受阻。然而，国内不稳定和血腥的军事冲突使波兰情报部门获得了大量西方制造的武器，同时促进了与中东恐怖组织的秘密接触。华沙通过向不同派别提供武器以及利用阴暗的掮客和中间人获取禁运货物，从黎巴嫩内战中获利。
Abstract This article examines the Polish Military espionage in Lebanon during the Cold War. Thorough analysis of recently declassified files of the Zarząd II Sztabu Generalnego Wojska Polskiego (Second Board of the General Staff of the Polish Army) allows reevaluation of the role played by the intelligence station codename “Cedr”/”Balbek” in Beirut from 1965 to 1982. The available archival records challenge the notion that Polish military intelligence was effective and conducted a long-term espionage strategy in Lebanon. In fact, since its establishment, the station lacked HUMINT capabilities and relied mostly on open source data. Moreover, the ambitious plans to set up a special intelligence post in Lebanon in case of the outbreak of a Third World War were hindered because of the civil war that started in 1975. Internal instability and bloody military conflict, however, enabled Polish intelligence to acquire significant amounts of Western-made weaponry, which boosted at the same time clandestine contacts with Middle-Eastern terrorist organizations. Warsaw profited from the Lebanese civil war by supplying different factions with arms and by using murky brokers and middle-men for obtaining embargoed goods.