Polish investigators allege Solidarity leader and former president had agreed to be paid for information by Soviet-era intelligenceLech Wałęsa,the leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement in the 1980s and the country’s first president of the post-communist era, has pledged to defend himself in court against a unusual claim that he was a paid informant for the country’s Soviet-era secret service.
The state-run National Remembrance Institute (NRI) said on Thursday that documents seized from the domestic of the last communist interior minister, or the late General Czesław Kiszczak,included a letter signed with Wałęsa’s code name, “Bolek, and in which he committed to providing the intelligence services with information.
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Source: theguardian.com