Operation Jungle

Operation Jungle
Part of the Cold War and the anti-communist insurgencies in Central and Eastern Europe
Three German Silbermöwe-class motorboats, used during the last phase of Operation Jungle
Date 1949–1955 Location Baltic Sea Poland Lithuania Result Soviet-Polish victory • Overall operational failure • Naval success[1]
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[2] Several agents captured	Unknown

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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.