Jaruzelski accused of being a spy

19th March 2010

General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader, has another battle on his hands after documents surfaced implying that he spied on his fellow army officers for the socialist state’s security apparatus.

Documents unearthed by historians at the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) indicate that Jaruzelski, who faces charges connected to the shooting dead of over 30 striking shipyard workers in 1970, was incorporated into counter intelligence in 1952.

IPN historian Wojciech Sawicki said a file found in the records of the East German secret police, the Stasi, make clear that the general was a spy after being by recruited by Captain Czeslaw Kiszczak, who later served as ...