WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Lech Walesa, Poland’s legendary anti-communist leader and former president, on Friday denied renewed allegations that he informed on people to the communist regime or took money from the secret security service.
Walesa was reacting to claims by a state history institute that recently seized documents include a commitment to provide information signed with Walesa’s name and codename, “Bolek,” and reports and receipts for money, dating from 1970-76.
“I was never broken (collaborating) in December 1970. I did not collaborate with the (secret security). I never took money and never made any spoken or written report on anyone,” Walesa wrote on a blog. “I trust that truth will defend itself.”
Head of the National Remembrance Institute, Lukasz Kaminski, has said the documents look authentic but historians still need to check whether what they contain is true.
Walesa said on the blog that during the many raids on his home and work places, the secret police seized his handwritten notes, also from a 1970 worker protest, that can now be “used as information on people.”