Henryk Piecuch, Colonel Retired, author of nearly 50 books on the past and activities of peculiar services:
– General Vitali Pawlov, head of the KGB representation in Poland from 1973 to 1984, before returning to Moscow, left about 5,000 agents, coworkers and candidates for agents. This is an estimation that can be calculated, however, by knowing the KGB's personnel resources in our country at the time and how they operate. These were persons recruited outside the cognition of the PRL services. People were recruited first of all, who could be of usage in the future, since the regulation of Andropov (1982 – 1984) Moscow was preparing to leave the RPPG countries and the Warsaw Pact and control them over the course of respective years by means of agentry and influence agentry. Therefore, not only opposition activists were recruited, but besides people active in economics, banking, and academics.
Even if we accept that half of the 5,000 died, there's inactive a lot left. Those who stay have prepared their successors. This second generation doesn't should be classical agents. I think that the Russians could have utilized a mechanics like that in France. In 1945, the Soviets occupied German archives, where there were records of a immense crowd of French collaborators. NKVD or Snot most of them took over. Many of these people have made a political and business career in the 5th Republic. erstwhile they died or retired due to age, children and grandchildren took their place very often. But this fresh generation was mostly no longer agents. They were “friends.” Persons whose companies received lucrative contracts, not necessarily from authoritative Russian companies, frequently operating under a false flag, i.e. registered and having shareholders from democratic countries. Lawyers, experts in various fields or academic teachers received various grants, orders.
