Izydor Modelski

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| name = Izydor Modelski

| image = File:Izydor Modelski 2.jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1889|05|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Lwów, Austria-Hungary
(now Ukraine)

| death_date = {{Death date|1962|10|25|df=y}}

| death_place = Washington, D.C., United States

| allegiance = Poland

| rank = Lieutenant General

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Izydor Modelski (May 10, 1889, in L'viv – September 25, 1962, in Washington, D.C.) was a Polish spy and a lieutenant general of the Polish Army.{{cite news |title=Lieut. Gen.Izydor Modelski, 74, Polish Spy Who Defected, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/28/archives/lieut-genizydor-modelski-74-polish-spy-who-defected-dies.html |work=New York Times |date=28 September 1962 |access-date=14 April 2020}} Modelski also completed a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Lviv in 1917.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} In 1946, he was sent to the United States to establish a spy ring. Defying an order to return to Poland in 1948, he testified about his actions to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1949.