Committee for Public Security (Poland)
| Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego | |
Coat of Arms of the Polish People's Republic used by the agency as its official logo | |
The agency's headquarters in Ujazdów Avenue | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1954 |
| Preceding agency | |
| Dissolved | 1956 |
| Superseding agency | |
| Type | Secret police, Internal Security Corps special purpose military formation also known as interior troops, foreign intelligence, Counterintelligence, border security, criminal investigations |
| Jurisdiction | Poland |
| Headquarters | Warsaw, Polish People's Republic |
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| Parent agency | Council of Ministers |
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The Committee for Public Security at the Council of Ministers (Polish: Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego) known in its acronym KdsBP, was collegial supreme body of the state administration of the Polish People's Republic, operating in the years 1954–1956, acting as a special service (comprising intelligence, counterintelligence and political police, and in the years 1955–1956 also military counterintelligence). The name of the institution and its formula was a copy of the name and formula of the KGB USSR, (acronym of Committee for State Security under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. According to the lustration law, the KdsBP is considered a state security body.