Władysław Kozaczuk

Władysław Kozaczuk (December 23, 1923 – September 26, 2003) was a Polish Army colonel and a military and intelligence historian.

Born in the village of Babiki near Sokółka, Kozaczuk joined the army in 1944, during World War II, at Białystok. In 1945 he became a Polish Army second lieutenant, and spent the first 5 years of his service commanding operational units of the Internal Security Corps, fighting the Polish anticommunist underground and then the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 1950 he was transferred to the Internal Security Corps Staff in Warsaw.

In 1954–55, following the Korean War, Kozaczuk carried out armistice-related duties in Korea. In 1955–58 he served in the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych). In 1957–58 he saw duty with the International Control Commission in Vietnam.

In 1958–69 he served in Polish military counter-intelligence (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna). According to his family, he found conditions there uncongenial and requested transfer to the Military Historical Institute (Wojskowy Instytut Historyczny) in Warsaw.

Kozaczuk had earned a degree in Polish philology in 1956 at Warsaw University. In 1978 he received a doctorate in history at Poland's Military Political Academy (Wojskowa Akademia Polityczna).

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