Internal Military Service Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna | |
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Abbreviation | WSW |
Agency overview | |
Formed | 1957 |
Preceding agency | |
Dissolved | 1990 |
Jurisdictional structure | |
National agency | pl |
Operations jurisdiction | pl |
General nature | |
Operational structure | |
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Parent agency | Ministry of National Defense |
The Internal Military Service, (Polish: Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna, WSW) coll. Szefostwo, was an armed military counterintelligence, military police, and military secret police within the structure of Ministry of National Defense or (MON). It served and protected the Polish Armed Forces against western and central MON institutions during the years of 1957-1990 in the Polish People's Republic or PRL.