GZI in Numbers and Secret Agents
Increasing repression on Army, Navy and Air Force officers, and the very fast development of the new Polish People's Army, forced GZI to increase the manpower and the number of new posts.
Whilst in January 1951, the number of permanent employees in GZI was 2,740 (1,002 officers, 302 non-commissioned officers, 1,198 privates and 238 civil employees) by January 1953 the number of permanent employees was up to 4,130 people - (1,502 officers, 453 non-commissioned officers, 1,795 privates and 380 civilian employees).
New informers and secret agents were recruited from regular army, navy and air force units. The biggest number of informers and secret agents was in 1952, when for a total of 356,481 Polish army soldiers there were 24,025 informers and secret agents, working in side military structure. At that time, every seventh soldier in the polish military was in contact with a GZI officer. It was the approved norm that orm was approved, that at least one agent from the GZI should be in each platoon.
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