Aleksandra Gasztold
Biographic Data
| ID | 1494236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandra Gasztold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Gasztold |
| SIGNATURE | GASZTOLD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Public Policy Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4137-006X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How to Recruit a Swede? Polish Military Intelligence and Failure of Humint in Cold War Sweden
Declassified Polish documents clearly show that recruitment efforts among Swedish citizens presented numerous challenges for the staff of the Polish intelligence residency, which, for several decades, was unable to recruit a high-ranking source with access to military information. When such an opportunity finally arose, Polish officers viewed the walk-in source as a provocation by Swedish counterintelligence and subsequently reported the matter t…
Warsaw and the Fedayeen
Poland was the second-to-last country in the Soviet bloc to establish official relations with the PLO – only doing this in March 1976. However, mutual contacts date back to the late 1960s, when Polish military intelligence forged a top-secret relationship with the PLO based around the arms trade. Using a variety of archival sources, this paper seeks to re-assess the relationship between Warsaw and the PLO within the broader framework of Polish po…
Strange bedfellows in the arms trade
The exposure of the Iran-Contra Affair in November 1986 revealed an illegal scheme to sell arms to Iran involving senior officials in the Reagan administration. The profits from the sales were used to support the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua, to whom the CIA was supplying arms manufactured in the Soviet Bloc. The aim of this article is to examine the behind-the-scenes role played by Polish intelligence services in the arms shipments to Iran and…
A Mole in Shin Bet
From the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, many Polish Jews emigrated there, seeking shelter in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the circumstances of growing anti-Semitic attitudes. Lucjan Levy/Levi was one such emigrant who left Poland and settled in Israel. He soon joined the Shin Bet counterintelligence service, even as he remained an asset for Polish intelligence, providing Warsaw (and the intelligence services elsew…
The Polish Counterterrorism System and Hybrid Warfare Threats
This article examines the origins, structure and role of the Polish counterterrorism system, which is then set against the rising threat posed by state and non-state actors employing hybrid warfare tools. We demonstrate the usefulness of anti-terrorist regulations, not only in counteracting terrorist groups, but also in the thwarting of operations engaged in by various entities waging hybrid warfare. We argue that lessons learned from the interna…
Arms, Advisors and Weapons of Mass Destruction
This paper examines the roots and outcomes of Polish-Libyan military cooperation between 1970 and 1990. From the early 1970s onward, Muammar Gaddafi spent millions of US dollars purchasing military hardware from the Soviet bloc. Poland played a significant role in this process by which his armed forces were re-equipped, by providing weapons and advisors who trained soldiers at both the Polish and Libyan military academies. In this paper, the auth…
Feminist Perspectives on Terrorism
Polish Intelligence in the Netherlands and Dutch Counter-Intelligence, 1947-1962
The article examines the origins, main goals and clandestine operations conducted by Polish Intelligence Services in The Netherlands between 1947 and 1962, as well as Dutch counter-intelligence measures in order to thwart Polish espionage. By using declassified intelligence documents from Polish and Dutch archives, we stipulate that the intelligence operations of Polish civilian and military intelligence stations in The Hague were seriously hampe…
Wars, Weapons and Terrorists
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 wa…
Østersjøukene
Østersjøukene var politiske festivaler som fant sted i DDR i perioden 1958–1975. Felles for fremstillingene om Østersjøukene hittil har vært et nasjonalt perspektiv som har satt Østersjøukene inn i historien om bilaterale forhold. Denne artikkelen er et nytt norsk-dansk-polsk-tysk samarbeid som vil undersøke emnet fra flere perspektiver. Artikkelens fokus er hvordan Østersjøukene, i øst som i vest, var gjenstand for overvåkning. Som et produkt av…
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Østersjøukene
Østersjøukene var politiske festivaler som fant sted i DDR i perioden 1958–1975. Felles for fremstillingene om Østersjøukene hittil har vært et nasjonalt perspektiv som har satt Østersjøukene inn i historien om bilaterale forhold. Denne artikkelen er et nytt norsk-dansk-polsk-tysk samarbeid som vil undersøke emnet fra flere perspektiver. Artikkelens fokus er hvordan Østersjøukene, i øst som i vest, var gjenstand for overvåkning. Som et produkt av…
Wars, Weapons and Terrorists
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 wa…
Feminist Perspectives on Terrorism
Polish Intelligence in the Netherlands and Dutch Counter-Intelligence, 1947-1962
The article examines the origins, main goals and clandestine operations conducted by Polish Intelligence Services in The Netherlands between 1947 and 1962, as well as Dutch counter-intelligence measures in order to thwart Polish espionage. By using declassified intelligence documents from Polish and Dutch archives, we stipulate that the intelligence operations of Polish civilian and military intelligence stations in The Hague were seriously hampe…
Arms, Advisors and Weapons of Mass Destruction
This paper examines the roots and outcomes of Polish-Libyan military cooperation between 1970 and 1990. From the early 1970s onward, Muammar Gaddafi spent millions of US dollars purchasing military hardware from the Soviet bloc. Poland played a significant role in this process by which his armed forces were re-equipped, by providing weapons and advisors who trained soldiers at both the Polish and Libyan military academies. In this paper, the auth…
Strange bedfellows in the arms trade
The exposure of the Iran-Contra Affair in November 1986 revealed an illegal scheme to sell arms to Iran involving senior officials in the Reagan administration. The profits from the sales were used to support the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua, to whom the CIA was supplying arms manufactured in the Soviet Bloc. The aim of this article is to examine the behind-the-scenes role played by Polish intelligence services in the arms shipments to Iran and…
A Mole in Shin Bet
From the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, many Polish Jews emigrated there, seeking shelter in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the circumstances of growing anti-Semitic attitudes. Lucjan Levy/Levi was one such emigrant who left Poland and settled in Israel. He soon joined the Shin Bet counterintelligence service, even as he remained an asset for Polish intelligence, providing Warsaw (and the intelligence services elsew…
The Polish Counterterrorism System and Hybrid Warfare Threats
This article examines the origins, structure and role of the Polish counterterrorism system, which is then set against the rising threat posed by state and non-state actors employing hybrid warfare tools. We demonstrate the usefulness of anti-terrorist regulations, not only in counteracting terrorist groups, but also in the thwarting of operations engaged in by various entities waging hybrid warfare. We argue that lessons learned from the interna…
Warsaw and the Fedayeen
Poland was the second-to-last country in the Soviet bloc to establish official relations with the PLO – only doing this in March 1976. However, mutual contacts date back to the late 1960s, when Polish military intelligence forged a top-secret relationship with the PLO based around the arms trade. Using a variety of archival sources, this paper seeks to re-assess the relationship between Warsaw and the PLO within the broader framework of Polish po…
How to Recruit a Swede? Polish Military Intelligence and Failure of Humint in Cold War Sweden
Declassified Polish documents clearly show that recruitment efforts among Swedish citizens presented numerous challenges for the staff of the Polish intelligence residency, which, for several decades, was unable to recruit a high-ranking source with access to military information. When such an opportunity finally arose, Polish officers viewed the walk-in source as a provocation by Swedish counterintelligence and subsequently reported the matter t…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (6 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Terrorism (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Counterintelligence (2 works)