Operation Jungle

Operation Jungle
	Part of the Cold War
	; Three German Silbermöwe-class motorboats, used during the last phase of Operation Jungle
Date	1949–1955
Location	Baltic Sea; Poland; Lithuania
Result	Overall operational failure; Naval success
Belligerents
United Kingdom; West Germany; Sweden; Denmark; United States	Soviet Union; Polish People's Republic
Commanders and leaders
Harry S. Truman; Henry Carr; John Harvey-Jones; Hans-Helmut Klose; Reinhard Gehlen; Gustaf VI Adolf; Fredrik IX	Viktor Abakumov; Lavrentiy Beria; Bolesław Bierut
Strength
2 E-boats; 3 motorboats	Soviet patrol boats
Casualties and losses
3 agents killed; Several agents captured	Unknown

Operation Jungle was a programme by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) early in the Cold War from 1949 to 1955 for the clandestine insertion of intelligence and resistance agents into Poland and the Baltic states. The agents were mostly Polish, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian exiles who had been trained in the United Kingdom and Sweden and were to link up with the anti-Soviet resistance against the communist governments (the cursed soldiers, the Forest Brothers). The naval operations of the programme were carried out by German crew-members of the German Mine Sweeping Administration under the control of the Royal Navy. The American-sponsored Gehlen Organization also got involved in the draft of agents from Eastern Europe. However, the MGB penetrated the network and captured or turned most of the agents.

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