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A commitment to cooperation with communist secret services signed by Lech Walesa has been found among the documents seized by the police in the house of Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak's widow - informed Lukasz Kaminski, President of Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). The documents allegedly show Walesa’s cooperation with secret services in the period 1970-1976.

On Tuesday evening police entered the house of the late communist interior minister Czesław Kiszczak. They confiscated the documents that could shed light on Lech Walesa’s alleged collaboration with the secret services as TW (secret agent) Bolek.

The police is also searching Kiszczak's summer house. They are looking for more archive documents.

Lech Wałęsa was a leader of Solidarnosc trade union protests in the 1980s. After the end of the communist regime he became president of Poland. For years he was denying accusations that he was an informant during the 1970s. His alleged cooperation with the communist security services (SB) followed the 1970 strikes in Gdańsk. Wałęsa had taken part in the protests. He supposedly broke off ties with the SB several years before the 1980 strike at the Gdańsk Shipyard.

Czesław Kiszczak, a chief of secret services and communist era Minister of Internal Affairs between 1981 and 1990, was a key figure in the imposition of martial law in 1981. He died aged 90 in November 2015.

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