Feliks Józef Ankerstein (1897 – ? 1955) was a

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and

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Ankerstein served during

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in the Polish Legions and the Polish Military Organization, and after the war in the

. He participated in the Silesian Uprisings.''Zbiór dokumentów ppłk. Edmunda Charaszkiewicza'' (A Collection of Documents by Lt. Col. Edmund Charaszkiewicz), p. 91, footnote 144. He became an officer in Section II of the Polish General Staff (the

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section), serving as deputy to the chief of its Office 2, Edmund Charaszkiewicz (1929–39), and as a member of the secret K-7 organization (''Komitet Siedmiu'', "Committee of Seven") that supervised certain

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s. He was engaged in covert operations from 16 September 1928, including the 1938 annexation of

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and operations conducted in autumn 1938 in collaboration with

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in Carpathian Rus.Paweł Samuś ''et al.'', ''Akcja "Łom": polskie działania dywersyjne na Rusi Zakarpackiej w świetle dokumentów Oddziału II Sztabu Głównego WP'' (Operation Crowbar: Polish Covert Operations in Transcarpathian Rus in Light of Documents of Section II of the Polish General Staff), ''passim''. After the

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in September 1939, Ankerstein worked in Section II's Office (''Ekspozytura'') "R" in Romania. He later made his way to

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, where he reportedly about 1940 entered the service of British

. After the war, he remained abroad.

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* Edmund Charaszkiewicz, ''Zbiór dokumentów ppłk. Edmunda Charaszkiewicza'' (A Collection of Documents by Lt. Col. Edmund Charaszkiewicz), ''opracowanie, wstęp i przypisy'' (edited, with introduction and notes by) Andrzej Grzywacz, Marcin Kwiecień, Grzegorz Mazur, Kraków, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2000, . * Edmund Charaszkiewicz, ''"Referat o działaniach dywersyjnych w Czechosłowacji"'' ("Report on Covert Operations in Czechoslovakia"), in ''Zbiór dokumentów ppłk. Edmunda Charaszkiewicza'' (A Collection of Documents by Lt. Col. Edmund Charaszkiewicz), pp. 88–105. * Edmund Charaszkiewicz, ''"Referat o działaniach dywersyjnych na Rusi Karpackiej"'' ("Report on Covert Operations in Carpathian Rus"), in ''Zbiór dokumentów ppłk. Edmunda Charaszkiewicza'' (A Collection of Documents by Lt. Col. Edmund Charaszkiewicz), pp. 106–30. * Józef Kasparek, "Poland's 1938 Covert Operations in Ruthenia," ''East European Quarterly'', vol. XXIII, no. 3 (September 1989), pp. 365–73. * Józef Kasparek, ''Przepust karpacki: tajna akcja polskiego wywiadu'' (The Carpathian Bridge: a Secret Polish Intelligence Operation), Warsaw, Sigma NOT, 1992, . *Paweł Samuś, Kazimierz Badziak, Giennadij Matwiejew, ''Akcja "Łom": polskie działania dywersyjne na Rusi Zakarpackiej w świetle dokumentów Oddziału II Sztabu Głównego WP'' (Operation Crowbar: Polish Covert Operations in Transcarpathian Rus in Light of Documents of Section II of the Polish General Staff), Warsaw, Adiutor, 1998. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ankerstein, Feliks 1897 births 1955 deaths Polish intelligence officers Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Polish military personnel of World War II Place of birth missing

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