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Title: Ryszard Gontarz collection
Dates: 1945-2008
Collection Number: 2009C37
Creator: Gontarz, Ryszard, 1930- , collector
Collection Size:
7 manuscript boxes
(2.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Photocopies of Polish government and communist party documents, minutes, bulletins, reports, circulated material, and printed
matter, relating to political conditions and secret service activities in Poland during the communist era.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Polish
Collection is open for research.
Access to sound recordings, video recordings, or motion picture material requires at least two weeks advance notice. Please
contact the Hoover Institution Archives for further information.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Ryszard Gontarz Collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2008.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
| 1930 | Born in Zamość region |
| 1948 | Joins Polish Workers Party (P.P.R.) |
| 1948-1949 | Involved in operations against anticommunist partisans |
| 1949 | Dismissed from Security Office (U.B.) |
| 1962 | Employed in Department I of Ministry of Internal Affairs (M.S.W.) |
| 1962-1966 | Undercover agent of the Ministry of Internal Affairs |
| 1967 | Informally connected with Security Services (S.B.) in his work as journalist |
| 1968 | Active in press campaign against March revolt |
Scope and Content of Collection
Photocopies of Polish government and communist party documents, minutes, bulletins, reports, circulated material, and printed
matter, relating to political conditions and secret service activities in Poland during the communist era.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Secret service--Poland.
Poland--Politics and government--1945-1980.
Poland--Politics and government--1980-1989.