Inwigilacja duchowieństwa diecezji sandomierskiej w świetle dokumentu KW MO w Kielcach z dnia 6 X 1961 r.

Abstract

This source edition presents a document created by the officers of the Se­curity Service at the Voivodeship Police Headquarters in Kielce in October 1961, containing information on the clergy of the Sandomierz diocese. It was kept as part of a case file entitled "Wisla" (surveillance of the diocesan curia and the seminary in Sandomierz) . The document is a typical example of "counter-intelligence features of a case." In addition, it contains a "direc- tional operational plan of undertakings". An analysis of the source allows us to determine the scale of surveillance to which the priests of the diocese were subjected. The present edition of the document contains a number of footnotes, which explain the more difficult formulations used by security officers, briefly approximate the figures of the priests named in it and elab- orate on the state/Church relations in the Polish People's Republic.