Lech Walesa Denounces Report Labeling Him a Communist Informer

New York Times ^ | JAN. 31, 2017 | JOANNA BERENDT

[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.

[miss marmelstein]

Well, thanks! You’re ok too and a fellow NYer.

[Mears]

Aren’t you nice.:-)

Hope all is well.

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[Matt_DZ_PL]

A top Polish (world famous) institute for criminal research in Krakow, The Seh'n Institute of Forensic Research In Krakow,  has announced WITH NO HESITATION AND ANY CHANCE FOR MISTAKE that all the handwritten documents were proven to have been written by Lech Walesa.

He started to collaborate with commies just a day after the massacre in December 1970. Already then when blood was still widespread on the snowy streets of Gdansk, were tank crushed guts and limbs of many were removed from the cobbled pavements, when mothers, wives children were weeping for their murdered fathers and brothers, that [no civilized words to use] promissed to spy his friend and report on them, taking money for that.

Proved guilty as charged.

 

A fragment of the classified Personal Data of an operative    

        pay attention to the date of his first report 12. January 1971

 

Handwritten signature after taking 1,500 zł  (equiv. of monthly shiphard wages) after invigilation a friend of his in the shipyard

 

Such documents are in hundreds of pieces! All of them officially PROVED REAL with 100% of certainty!

[Matt_DZ_PL]

Btw. In the Polish language we have the word “szmata” (read: shmatah. It’s a piece of a cloth especially used for washing dirty floors. It’s a thing just used for wiping out urine,and so on, in public toilets, latrins...

When used in slang, it describes a person, and frankly speaking, there’s nothing worse, more offensive in the Polish language...

Actually, this word is the only that comes to my mind on the spur of the moment when thinking of that man.

Does the word “rag” work that way in slang in English?