In order to capture and murder members of the largest concentration of anti-communist democratic underground units operating in the Slask Opolski and Podbeskidzie regions, in 1946, the UB (pol. Urzad Bezpieczenstwa - Polish secret police) employed an ingenious "operational play" (pol. "gra operacyjna"), code-named "Operation Avalanche" (pol. "Operacja Lawina"). It relied not only on the introduction of its own agents (pol. "agentura" - agents) into the ranks of the leadership and command structure of the democratic underground, but also on creating new, and completely fictitious organizations under its complete control. The destruction of the units lead by Captain Henryk Flame “Bartek” was only a side-effect of a far broader and sinister “operational play” conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (pol. Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnetrzynych), conducted against the National Armed Forces (pol. NSZ – Narodowe Sily Zbrojne). This particular "play", became a proverbial Guinea pig for the UB, to gain experience for their future operations against the armed underground. We need to stress here, that it was not by the happenstance, that in this instance, the most valuable “Player”, an UB agent, Henryk Wendrowski, would also play a key role in the future overtaking of key positions within the structures of the Freedom And Independence (pol. WiN - Wolnosc i Niepdleglosc).
The conduct of such important, and tragic in consequences operation, evokes many questions related to the chronology of events, and identification of individuals responsible for issuing orders to commit the murders. Read the entire story here
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