Was Lech Walesa 'A Paid Communist Informant'?

BBC: Lech Walesa 'was paid Communist informant'

Poland's history institute says that newly seized documents suggest former president and Solidarity hero Lech Walesa was an informer.

The documents were taken earlier this week from the home of a former communist-era interior minister, Gen Czeslaw Kiszczak.

Lukasz Kaminski, head of the Institute of National Remembrance, said the documents appear authentic.

Mr Walesa has long denied being an informer in the 1970s.

The former president said the new materials could not originate from him, according to Polish radio.

The 279 pages of documents have not yet been properly analysed, and will be made public in due course, Mr Kaminski said.

Read more ....

WNU Editor: Lech Walesa has denied these claims .... Lech Wałęsa denies he was secret service informant during communist era (The Guardian). As to what is my take .... in the Warsaw Pact everyone had some connection with the Communist regime that they were living under, that is why  these claims will have zero impact .... Informant claims unlikely to alter Polish view of Walesa (BBC)

More News On Reports That Lech Walesa Was 'A Paid Communist Informant'

In Poland, spy claims reemerge against Lech Walesa -- DW
Was Nobel-winning icon a paid informant for Polish regime? -- AP
Poland's Lech Walesa was communist spy: secret police file -- AFP
New document found in Poland points to Walesa's cooperation with Communists -- UPI
Lech Walesa Faces New Accusations of Communist Collaboration -- NYT
Polish Institute Says Walesa Worked With Communist Police -- Bloomberg
Lech Walesa was Soviet-era informant, say Polish investigators -- Financial Times
Polish institute accuses democracy-hero Walesa of being communist collaborator -- RT
Poland's Lech Walesa again accused of Communist collaboration -- CSM