POLAND:A POLISH newspaper has published excerpts of a new book purporting to prove that former anti-communist leader Lech Walesa once informed for the communist secret police, claims he has repeatedly denied.
The claims are not new but the book, by two historians working for the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) - which supervises files from the communist era - cites what it says are previously unknown documents linking Mr Walesa to the secret police in the early 1970s.
Mr Walesa, leader of the Solidarity movement that toppled the communist government in Poland in 1989, has long denied claims of collaboration.
His office declined to comment yesterday on the excerpts, published in the Rzeczpospolita daily, but newspapers say Mr Walesa plans to sue. - (Reuters)