Editing Special operations (section)

===Poland===
On 20 September 1940 the Polish government in exile in London formed a special military unit in Britain with the soldiers called [[Cichociemni]] (silent and unseen) paratroopers to be deployed into Poland to help the resistance.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://polishhistory.pl/cichociemni-the-silent-unseen-elite-soldiers-of-the-polish-army-during-the-second-world-war/ | title=Cichociemni – the Silent Unseen. Elite soldiers of the Polish army during the Second World War | date=15 February 2022 | access-date=22 March 2023 | archive-date=30 December 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230165846/https://polishhistory.pl/cichociemni-the-silent-unseen-elite-soldiers-of-the-polish-army-during-the-second-world-war/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Grom">{{cite web | url=https://sofrep.com/specialoperations/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-polish-special-unit-grom/ | title=Everything you need to know about the Polish Special Unit GROM | access-date=2022-08-14 | archive-date=2022-08-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812005306/https://sofrep.com/specialoperations/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-polish-special-unit-grom/ | url-status=live }}</ref> The Cichociemni were trained similar to the early British Special Forces with each soldier receiving specialization training for their specific task of deployment to Poland through a paradrop as a special operation to sustain a Polish state through training the members of the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|resistance]] in fighting the German occupants.<ref name="Grom" /> This included [[Operation Tempest]] and uprisings in [[Operation Ostra Brama|Wilno]], [[Lwów Uprising|Lwów]] and 91 operators taking part in the [[Warsaw Uprising]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/10/honouring-poland-silent-unseen-fighters-resistance-nazi-british | title=Silent, unseen but not forgotten: Poland's resistance fighters honoured | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=10 June 2016 | access-date=22 March 2023 | archive-date=13 February 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213082644/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/10/honouring-poland-silent-unseen-fighters-resistance-nazi-british | url-status=live }}</ref>

Previous to the formation of the [[GROM]] unit Polish special operations [[Operation Simoom|rescued six CIA, DIA and NSA officers]] from Iraq on 25 October 1990.<ref>{{cite web |title=How Poland Rescued CIA Spies From Iraq in 1990 |url=https://sofrep.com/news/how-poland-rescued-cia-spies-from-iraq-in-1990/ |website=SOFREP |access-date=15 August 2022 |language=en |date=15 September 2014 |archive-date=14 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814203350/https://sofrep.com/news/how-poland-rescued-cia-spies-from-iraq-in-1990/ |url-status=live }}</ref>