Josef "Joe" Tarnowski (19 March 1922, in Maniewicze – 12 September 2010, in Edinburgh) was a Polish-Scottish electronics engineer and intelligence officer.
He was a spy for the Armia Krajowa after the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland (now western Ukraine) under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, before being arrested by the NKVD, tortured, and sentenced to the Vorkuta gulag in Siberia.
[1] Reprieved when Hitler's attack caused the USSR to change sides, Tarnowski made his way to Iran, there joining the Polish Paratroop Brigade.
Shipped to Perthshire for training in Fife, he was to meet his future wife Janet in 1944 before the brigade dropped on Arnhem.
[1] In retirement, he volunteered with British Executive Service Overseas in post-communist Poland to help rebuild an economy there and trade with Britain.