Editing Security Service (Poland) (section)

=={{anchor|SB activities}}Activities==
After it was renamed the SB in 1956, it entered a period of relative inactivity during the era of reform instituted by [[Władysław Gomułka]]. However, after 1968 it was revived as a stronger body responsible for [[political repression]], most notably of the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] movement, the leader of which, [[Lech Wałęsa]], was under constant SB surveillance. Throughout the [[martial law in Poland|martial law]] (1981-1983), SB played a key role in [[wiretapping]] telephones in public areas and institutions. It also participated in [[Entryism|infiltrating]] Solidarity's committees and gatherings.

The torture and execution  of Catholic priest [[Jerzy Popiełuszko]] by SB members (who were later convicted of murder) in 1984 shook Poland. The agency is also suspected of killing [[Stanisław Pyjas]], Catholic priest Stefan Niedzielak, and is reported to have abused priest [[Roman Kotlarz]], who died mysteriously<ref>KOR, A history of the Worker's Defense Committee in Poland, 1976 – 1981, by [[Jan Józef Lipski|Jan Jósef Lipski]], Translated by Olga Amsterdamska and Gene M. Moore, University of California Press, 1985, page 36</ref> after a beating.