WIN organization
also: Wynne, WEN, Freedom and Independence, Polish Liberation Army
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Polandcountry · 7CIAintelligence service · 5KGBintelligence service · 5United Kingdomcountry · 4Frank Wisnerperson · 4Inter-Services Intelligenceintelligence service · 4Franklin A. Lindsayperson · 3Richard M. Bissell Jr.person · 2Soviet Unioncountry · 2United Statescountry · 2Władysław Andersperson · 1Battle of Warsawevent · 1Salvadoran Armed Forcesorganization · 1West Virginiaplace · 1Joseph Stalinperson · 1Jedburghsorganization · 1Harry Lambton Carrperson · 1Londonplace · 1World War IIevent · 1West Germanycountry · 1
Claims (2)
Soviet Union front_for
WIN book_quoted
“to immigrant families and radio messages to Western intelligence services. They had, they said, 500 WEN operatives. 20,000 could be mobilized and 100,000 sympathizers. The WEN messages asked for money and supplies. The British and Americans…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 29:20
CIA funded
WIN book_quoted
“In February of 49, the British bowed out. The Wisner Group then furnished all the money for when? More than a million dollars over three years, going directly to the Russians. In 51, Lindsay recruited John Bross, another of the former lawye…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 29:50
Mentions (11)
▶ 27:30
The CIA had assumed that they were in contact with anti-Soviet underground called WIN, W-I-N, or Freedom and Independence. I'm not going to try to pronounce the Polish name. The roots lay in World War II when Polish resistance to the Nazis …
▶ 27:56
Stalin then proceeded to contrive a Soviet satellite state in Poland. The WIN, W-I-N, consisted of Poles of resistance, veterans, and anti-Soviet underground. But his first commander had been arrested and tried in 1947, Soviet crackdown, af…
▶ 28:24
While the intelligence services did not conclude that Wynne had been destroyed, right there remains a mystery because basically they had exported the entire leadership. Around that time, Harry Carr of the British side had approached General…
▶ 28:49
who naturally had Wynne connections and sought to forge links to the underground. Poland seemed a logistical theater for CIA political warfare, certainly a place to argue for democracy against communism. Wynne seemed the ideal instrument. F…
▶ 29:20
to immigrant families and radio messages to Western intelligence services. They had, they said, 500 WEN operatives. 20,000 could be mobilized and 100,000 sympathizers. The WEN messages asked for money and supplies. The British and Americans…
▶ 29:50
In February of 49, the British bowed out. The Wisner Group then furnished all the money for when? More than a million dollars over three years, going directly to the Russians. In 51, Lindsay recruited John Bross, another of the former lawye…
▶ 30:47
In 1952, Wynn asked for a list of the targets the CIA wanted destroyed in the event of that war, certainly something Russian intelligence would need to know. The CIA sent the list. Bras became queasy when Wynn followed up by asking for an A…
▶ 31:14
The Russians, knowing the game was up, blew the operation for his propaganda value. A star agent first recruited by the British revealed himself as a Russian spy, recounting how Wynn had deceived the West. Then the Soviets staged a show tri…
▶ 48:32
hastily improvised operation began coming apart. This fallout left a lasting impression on the newly appointed CIA officer named Ted Shackley, who started a supercharged career at the agency as a second lieutenant, Shanghai'd from the job t…
▶ 49:31
The same with the FBI, the same with the DEA, the same with the IRS. We have found CIA assets and agents embedded in every organization in our government, to include Congress. Winsner and his men had dropped roughly $5 million worth of gold…
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a handful of immigrants in Germany and London. They blessed that when inside was a powerful force, 500 soldiers in Poland, 25,000 armed partisans and 100,000 sympathizers all prepared to fight the Soviet Union, unquote. And yet it was all p…