By Alasdair Sandford | With AP, REUTERS
Polish historical investigators say newly uncovered documents show
Lech Walesa – the former President and hero of the Solidarity movement
that famously challenged communist rule – had previously been a paid
informant for the Soviet-era security services.
Walesa, now 72, has repeated his long-standing denials over the claims of collaboration.
Documents examined
But Poland’s state Institute of National Remembrance has inspected documents seized this week
from the home of the communist era’s last interior minister, the late
General Czeslaw Kiszczak. It says they include a signed pledge to
provide information from 1970 to 1976.
The institute says an expert has authenticated the documents, which the ex-minister’s widow reportedly tried to sell.
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Source: Euronews
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