confidential contact (KP)

A semi-formal category of collaboration with the SB, used until the end of the 1960s.

According to the glossary of the IPN Archival Inventory, the category existed until 1970. A confidential contact was not asked for a written declaration or a handwritten curriculum vitae, and the officer assigned the codename without the person's knowledge. Until the late 1960s it was used alongside the operational contact and the official contact.¹

The KP category covered people who could not formally be recruited as secret collaborators – for example PZPR members or people in high positions – as well as people with whom only loose contact was maintained or who could not be recruited for operational reasons. Operational instruction no. 006/70 of 1970 formally replaced it with the operational contact (KO).¹