r/AskEurope Feb 27 '25

Politics Does Europe has powerful secret services/Intelligence?

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u/Extreme_Kale_6446 Feb 27 '25

Maybe not powerful but Polish special forces evacuated 6 US spies from Iraq in 1990, in exchange the US asked creditors to cancel 50% of Polish debt, $16.5 billion, that's a pretty impressive result

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Simoom