Jan Graliński

Jan Graliński

Jan Józef Graliński (February 8, 1895January 9, 1942) was chief of the Polish General Staff's interbellum Cipher Bureau's Russian section, "B.S.-3."

After Poland was overrun by the Germans and Soviets in September 1939, Graliński managed, along with other Cipher Bureau personnel, to reach Paris, France. He became part of the reconstituted Polish cryptologic unit that was housed during the "Phony War" in the "Château de Vignolles", codenamed "PC Bruno", at Gretz-Armainvillers, some forty kilometers northeast of Paris.

After northern France was overrun by German forces in May-June 1940, Graliński was one of the Polish cryptologic team that operated at "Cadix" in southern, Vichy France's "Free Zone."

Graliński perished in the Mediterranean Sea, near the Balearic Islands, on January 9, 1942. He was returning to the Cadix center, near Uzès in southern France, from a stint at Cadix's branch office at the "Château Couba" on the outskirts of Algiers. His passenger ship, the "Lamoricière", sank in unclear circumstances. Fellow victims of the disaster, among the 222 passengers lost, included Piotr Smoleński, likewise of the prewar Cipher Bureau's Russian section, and Jerzy Różycki of its German section, as well as a French officer accompanying the three Poles, Capt. François Lane.

In 1978 cryptologist Marian Rejewski, of the prewar Cipher Bureau's German section ("B.S.-4"), was asked by historian Richard Woytak whether he had known Capt. (eventually Major) Graliński. Rejewski replied that he had but that, for reasons of security, they had never discussed their respective cryptologic work. Rejewski added that Graliński "was supposed to have been very talented."

References

* Władysław Kozaczuk, "Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two", edited and translated by Christopher Kasparek, Frederick, MD, University Publications of America, 1984, pp. 82, 128, 240 "et passim."

* Tessa Stirling "et al.", eds., "Intelligence Co-operation between Poland and Great Britain during World War II", vol. I: the Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee, London, Vallentine Mitchell, 2005, ISBN 0-85303-656-X.

ee also

*History of Polish Intelligence Services.


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