Maciej Hunia | |
---|---|
Head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency | |
In office 7 June 2008 –19 November 2015 | |
Preceded by | Andrzej Ananicz (acting) |
Succeeded by | Grzegorz Małecki (acting) |
Head of the Military Intelligence Service | |
In office 16 January 2008 –11 August 2008 | |
Preceded by | Witold Marczuk |
Succeeded by | Radosław Kujawa |
Personal details | |
Born | Maciej Marek Hunia 25 February 1961 Kraków,Poland |
Maciej Marek Hunia (born 25 February 1961) is a Polish government officer of special services,including the Office of State Protection and the Internal Security Agency,and a Brigadier General of the Civil Intelligence. In 2008 he was the head of the Military Intelligence Service,and was the head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency from 2008 to 2015.
Maciej Hunia was born in Kraków on 25 February 1961. [1]
In 1986 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the Jagiellonian University. He was active in the Independent Students' Association. He practiced mountain climbing and met Konstanty Miodowicz during this period. [2]
At the end of the 1980s,he completed his military service. In 1990,he became an officer in the delegation of the State Protection Office in Kraków. He held the positions of an analyst,and from 1993 to 1997,he was the deputy head and head of the counterintelligence department in this delegation. From 1997 to 2006 he was the director of the Counterintelligence Board at the Office for State Protection,and then headed the Counterintelligence Department at the Internal Security Agency. [1]
In 2004,President Aleksander Kwaśniewski appointed Hunia to the rank of brigadier general in the ABW corps. [3]
In 2007 he was a diplomat (counselor) at the Polish Embassy in Prague. On 16 January 2008,Hunia took the office of the head of the Military Intelligence Service,previously (from 29 November 2007) he was the deputy of the then head of the SWW Witold Marczuk. On 7 June 2008,he was the head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency. On 11 August 2008,he was dismissed from the position of the head of the SWW and at the same time appointed to the position of the head of the AW,which he held until 19 November 2015.
In May 2015,Hunia was one of the Polish people sanctioned by Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian War. [4]
Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) or counterespionage (counter-espionage) is any activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting activities to prevent espionage,sabotage,assassinations or other intelligence activities conducted by,for,or on behalf of foreign powers,organizations or persons.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB;its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995. The three major structural successor components of the former KGB that remain administratively independent of the FSB are the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR),the Federal Protective Service (FSO),and the Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the Russian Federation (GUSP).
The United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is the primary investigative law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of the Navy. Its primary function is to investigate major criminal activities involving the Navy and Marine Corps,though its broad mandate includes national security,counterintelligence,counterterrorism,cyberwarfare,and the protection of U.S. naval assets worldwide. NCIS is the successor organization to the former Naval Investigative Service (NIS),which was established by the Office of Naval Intelligence after the Second World War.
The Foreign Intelligence Agency (Polish:Agencja Wywiadu is a Polish intelligence agency tasked with the gathering of public and secret information abroad for the Republic of Poland.
The Internal Security Agency,ISA is Poland's domestic counterintelligence and security agency. The ABW is responsible for analyzing,reporting and preventing threats to Poland's internal security,including terrorism,foreign espionage,arms smuggling,drug trafficking,organized crime,corruption and economic coercion. Its powers include arresting individuals,conducting searches and investigations,and combating terrorism with a specialized armed anti-terrorist force.
Podporuchik is the most junior officer in some Slavic armed forces,and is placed below the rank of lieutenant,typically corresponding to rank of second lieutenant in English-speaking countries.
The Ministry of Public Security,was the secret police,intelligence and counter-espionage agency operating in the Polish People's Republic. From 1945 to 1954 it was known as the Security Office,and from 1956 to 1990 as the Security Service.
The National Intelligence Board (NIB),formerly the National Foreign Intelligence Board and before that the United States Intelligence Board is a body of senior U.S. Intelligence Community leaders currently led by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The Board is tasked with reviewing and approving National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs).
The Military Counterintelligence Service is one of the three federal intelligence agencies in Germany,and is responsible for military counterintelligence within Bundeswehr. The MAD is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Defense.
The under secretary of defense for intelligence and security or USD(I&S) is a high-ranking civilian position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that acts as the principal civilian advisor and deputy to the secretary of defense (SecDef) and deputy secretary of defense (DepSecDef) on matters relating to military intelligence and security. The under secretary is appointed as a civilian by the president and confirmed by the Senate to serve at the pleasure of the president.
The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI),also abbreviated IN,DOE-IN,DOE/IN,I&CI,or OIC,was established in 2006 by the merger of pre-existing Energy Department intelligence and security organizations. It is an office of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for all intelligence and counterintelligence activities throughout the DOE complex;due to this central role,OICI is designated DOE's Headquarters Intelligence. As a component of the United States Intelligence Community in addition to the Department of Energy,OICI reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Energy.
The Internal Military Service,coll. Szefostwo,was an armed military counterintelligence,military police,and military secret police within the structure of Ministry of National Defense or (MON). It served and protected the Polish Armed Forces against western and central MON institutions during the years of 1957-1990 in the Polish People's Republic or PRL.
Grzegorz Małecki is an official of Polish intelligence and security services,diplomat,colonel,such as the Office for State Protection (UOP),the Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the Foreign Intelligence Agency (AW). In 2016 he was the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency of the Republic of Poland.
William J. Walker is a retired United States Army major general and former Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the 38th House Sergeant at Arms and the first African-American to hold the office. He last served as the 23rd Commanding General of the District of Columbia National Guard. This responsibility includes command of the District of Columbia Army and Air National Guard units. Walker previously served in the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Special Agent and was promoted to the Senior Executive Service in January 2003,with his final assignment being Deputy Assistant Administrator in Charge of the Office of Strategic Warning Intelligence. Walker is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a National Academy of Public Administration Fellow.
Jacek Gawryszewski is a Polish colonel of civil intelligence service and diplomat,serving as an ambassador to Chile since 2017.
Radosław Tomasz Kujawa,is a Polish political military commander who head been the Head of the Military Intelligence Service from 2008 to 2015.
Falanga is a Polish national radical organization founded in January 2009. The former coordinator of the Masovian Brigade of the National Radical Camp (ONR),Bartosz Bekier,leads it.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)