Posted on 02/15/2017 4:15:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
A handwriting analysis has determined that Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland’s anticommunist Solidarity movement and later the president of Poland, was a Communist paid informant in the 1970s, according to a new official report issued on Tuesday.
Mr. Walesa, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, immediately denounced the report as unreliable and politically motivated, while his supporters insisted that the full picture of his seeming collaboration with the Communist authorities was more complicated than the report suggested.
The report was prepared by the state-run Institute of Forensic Research in Krakow, which analyzed more than 150 documents that were found last year in the home of Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, the longtime interior minister during the Communist era, who died in 2015.
“From Dec. 29, 1970, to June 19, 1976, the future leader of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, was an informant for the Communist secret services under the code name ‘Bolek,’ who spied on his colleagues and got paid for it,” said Jaroslaw Szarek, the president of the government-run Institute of National Remembrance, which looks after the records of Poland’s Communist past.
Andrzej Pozorski, who leads a commission that investigates Communist-era crimes, said that Mr. Walesa could be prosecuted for giving false testimony, though it seems unlikely that the authorities will want to pursue criminal charges.
Mr. Walesa, 73, said he believed the handwriting experts and officials from the government-run institute were under political pressure from Poland’s right-wing governing party, Law and Justice, to declare the uncovered files authentic.
The party has long tried to undermine Mr. Walesa’s legacy. Its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is effectively the most powerful man in Poland, has been estranged from Mr. Walesa for over 25 years, after a falling out soon after the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
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Well, if true, he was certainly a very incompetent Communist mole since he, along with many others, managed to overthrow the communists.
Well, if true, he was certainly a very incompetent Communist mole since he, along with many others, managed to overthrow the communists.
If you can turn someone into a traitor how well can you really trust them?
This is a conspiracy ALL THINGS RUSSIA to make ANYONE who is for real democracy look evil.
Lech, Trump, soon John Paul II and Thatcher I’m sure.
“If Lech couldn’t be trusted, how can Trump?!”
That can all ##### my #####.
All of a sudden the left gives a flying #### about Russia and communism.
I’ll die fighting them before I see Trump impeached.
You’re buying this BULLSHI#?!?!
The narrative of the ###ING MONTH is RUSSIA IS EVIL AND TRUMP and now even LECH are their henchmen!!!
Everybody wake the #### up and clean your guns
The stories go back to when the government was trying to discredit Walesa in the 1980s.
Would it be surprising if security forces had fake dossiers incriminating dissidents as informers?
Probably everybody was questioned at one time or another by the secret police, but if they really had the goods on the guy wouldn't they have used it when it would have made a difference?
No just musing about the trustworthiness of any generic traitor.
Um....so?
OK, maybe he tried to cover up his embarrassing past.
But, people DO change, sometimes. Totally possible he was a commie enabler in the ‘70s and a radical anti-commie in the ‘80s.
Barry’s post election tentacles reach world wide.
I don’t by this for a second. Trump & the Russian are probably going after him.
Trump?!?! Have you lost the last of your mind?!??!! :)
The Lenin Shipyard fired him in 1976. If he was an informant, he wasn’t very good at it.
Who paid for the handwriting analysis, and why was it conducted?
If he was an informant in the 70s, it doesn’t mean he was still an informant in the 80s.
Pretty soon it’ll be revealed that Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul 2 were commie informants.
I think people have forgotten how communist disinformation works and discredits. Walesa is a hero.
they are making a bad move. Me and many others on this site will fight and die to prevent the coup. This isn’t a post that will get me kicked off because that is our duty as American citizens.
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