Official: documents show Walesa collaborated with regime

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AP Warsaw
Last Updated : Feb 18 2016 | 4:07 PM IST
The head of Poland's history institute says that recently seized documents show that former president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was a paid informant for the communist-era secret security from 1970-76.
Walesa has admitted signing a commitment to be an informant, but has insisted he never acted on it. In 2000 he was cleared by a special court.
Head of the state National Remembrance Institute, Lukasz Kaminski, said today that documents seized this week from the house of the last communist interior minister, the late General Czeslaw Kiszczak, include a commitment to provide information to the secret security that is signed with Walesa's name and codename, "Bolek."
There are also pages of reports and receipts for money signed by Walesa.
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First Published: Feb 18 2016 | 4:07 PM IST

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