Kazimierz Odrobny

In the mid-fifties Kazimierz Odrobny's activities sparked the interest of the secret services answerable to the Ministry of the Interior of the People's Republic of Poland, among them the civil intelligence and counter-espionage services. Their investigations are mainly documented as operations under the aliases “Odrobina”(Hint), “Krewni” (Relatives) and “Pająki” (Spiders), which were carried out between the late 1950s and the end of the 1960s. Thus he became the target of the Polish security apparatus, which also spied on his family in Poland along with his wife's family and acquaintances who were connected with the Endecja movement. At that time many “personal sources of information” of the Polish security service were to be found in his entourage, and they regularly exposed him to provocations and tests of opinion. In addition to the activities of the bodies under the Polish Ministry of the Interior, the Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna (WSW), i.e. the Military Counter-Intelligence Service, also dealt with Kazimierz Odrobny in the early 1960s. The information obtained was forwarded to the management of the WSW Department of the Śląski Okręg Wojskowy (Silesian Military District). However, this issue has still not been fully clarified, mainly because of limited access to the archives. Both the civilian and military security authorities of the People's Republic of Poland officially discontinued their observation of Kazimierz Odrobny at the end of the 1960s.

Meanwhile Zofia Odrobna had died in September 1960 after a long illness. Kazimierz suffered greatly from his wife's death. His activities in the organization steadily decreased and eventually he withdrew completely from the work of the ZPU in order to concentrate on the interests of the refugees within the framework of the ZAF international forum. In this regard, he often met representatives from the ministries in Bonn and the state governments responsible for refugee issues and organised meetings on issues that required the intervention of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Bad Godesberg. He maintained special relations with the office for homeless foreigners in Düsseldorf, which was headed in the 1950s by the well-known German Turkologist Professor Gerhard von Mende (1904-1963). After his death, Kazimierz Odrobny maintained his relations with the representatives of this institution, in particular with Walter Conradi, who gave financial support to the work of the ZPU's board, including funding for the magazine “Polak”. His relations with Walter Conradi still raise doubts because of the latter's unclear connections to intelligence services in the Federal Republic of Germany, including the American CIA, the BND and the Federal Office for the Constitution (BfV). The sources indicate that Conradi was a leading member of a West German intelligence service. Kazimierz Odrobny also maintained closer relations with Wolfgang Müller, the coordinator for cooperation with various refugee groups at the Home Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.