Operation Jungle
1945–1955 British MI6 program to infiltrate its agents into Poland and Baltic states / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Operation Jungle was a programme by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) early in the Cold War from 1949 to 1955 for the clandestine insertion of intelligence and resistance agents into Poland and the Baltic states. The agents were mostly Polish, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian exiles who had been trained in the United Kingdom and Sweden and were to link up with the anti-Soviet resistance against the communist governments (the cursed soldiers, the Forest Brothers). The naval operations of the programme were carried out by German crew-members of the German Mine Sweeping Administration under the control of the Royal Navy. The American-sponsored Gehlen Organization also got involved in the draft of agents from Eastern Europe. However, the MGB penetrated the network and captured or turned most of the agents.
Operation Jungle | |||||||
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Part of the Cold War | |||||||
Three German Silbermöwe-class motorboats, used during the last phase of Operation Jungle | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United Kingdom West Germany Sweden Denmark United States |
Soviet Union Polish People's Republic | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Harry S. Truman Henry Carr John Harvey-Jones Hans-Helmut Klose Reinhard Gehlen Gustaf VI Adolf Fredrik IX |
Viktor Abakumov Lavrentiy Beria Bolesław Bierut | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
2 E-boats 3 motorboats | Soviet patrol boats | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
3 agents killed[2] Several agents captured | Unknown |