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Lech Walesa 'was paid Communist informant'
BBC News ^ | 2/18/2016

Posted on 02/18/2016 10:04:57 AM PST by sparklite2

Mr Kaminski gave details of what he claimed was inside a file on Mr Walesa, covering the period 1970-6:

"Inside the personal file there is an envelope and inside, a hand written commitment to cooperate with the secret police signed 'Lech Walesa - Bolek'," he said.

Mr Kaminski said that among the documents in this folder were some "hand-written confirmations of receiving funds", signed with the pseudonym 'Bolek'.

"In the work folder... are many reports by a secret informant with the pseudonym 'Bolek' and notes by secret police officers from meetings with the secret informant," the director added.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bolek; lechwalesa; poland; walesa
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1 posted on 02/18/2016 10:04:57 AM PST by sparklite2
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BS!

That evidence was “planted” by Commie agents to try to discredit Walesa in the eyes of his supporters.


2 posted on 02/18/2016 10:06:03 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: sparklite2

Talk about a case of “buyer beware”. They should be asking for their money back.


3 posted on 02/18/2016 10:07:50 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: sparklite2

How did that work out for the communists?


4 posted on 02/18/2016 10:08:22 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: sparklite2

If he was a paid Communist informant, I don’t think the Communist government got much value for their money.

What’s left of the Polish Communist Party might want to ask for a refund due to non-performance.


5 posted on 02/18/2016 10:09:03 AM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: dfwgator

Or something he had to sign, or else. Clearly he didn’t deliver, and Poland’s resistance under Walesa was essential in breaking up the Warsaw Pact and ultimately the Soviet Union.

Certainly a hit piece. Why now?


6 posted on 02/18/2016 10:12:06 AM PST by Psalm 144 ("Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded" - James Madison)
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To: sparklite2

Obviously a Goldman Sachs owned GOPe plant!!


7 posted on 02/18/2016 10:12:09 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: sparklite2

Eh. Its most likely not true but even if it is, he did a Hell of a lot more damage to Communism than he helped it.


8 posted on 02/18/2016 10:12:12 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: sparklite2

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9 posted on 02/18/2016 10:12:54 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: sparklite2

He was openly, actively and successfully able to destroy communism in Poland and eastern Europe. We have the video. We have the outcome. If he was working for the communists, he was the worst possible communist that ever lived.


10 posted on 02/18/2016 10:13:15 AM PST by poinq
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To: sparklite2

Bkmrk.


11 posted on 02/18/2016 10:13:42 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: MNJohnnie

lol...that was brilliant.

I was having sort of a “similar” thought and was hoping to say something clever....but you totally beat me to it!!


12 posted on 02/18/2016 10:14:00 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: poinq

Although I’ve been disappointed recently in Walesa, for asking that Poland take in more Muslim refugees.


13 posted on 02/18/2016 10:15:21 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: sparklite2

Allegations of Lech Walesa’s communist past...

http://www.wnd.com/2000/09/6481/


14 posted on 02/18/2016 10:16:08 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

This is nothing new, these rumors have been around for years.


15 posted on 02/18/2016 10:16:56 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Psalm 144

“Certainly a hit piece. Why now?”

Because the documents were just now discovered?


16 posted on 02/18/2016 10:18:20 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2

Total donkey poo.


17 posted on 02/18/2016 10:18:50 AM PST by svcw (An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man is a subject)
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To: poinq

Agreed. Walesa worked for the communists like Lenin worked for the German Empire by going to Finland Station. What is that phrase again? Hoist on one’s own petard.


18 posted on 02/18/2016 10:22:28 AM PST by Psalm 144 ("Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded" - James Madison)
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To: sparklite2

“Because the documents were just now discovered?”

Very unlikely. The people who keep such archives do so for a reason, and know what is in their inventory.

There is some reason to this being brought out at this time. It serves someone’s agenda.


19 posted on 02/18/2016 10:24:44 AM PST by Psalm 144 ("Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded" - James Madison)
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To: poinq
He was openly, actively and successfully able

Which suggested he might not have been clean. Other folks ended up neutralized or even dead. Lech seemed to be able to avoid that outcome.

20 posted on 02/18/2016 10:45:50 AM PST by PAR35
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