Walesa holding illegal docs?

24th July 2010

Walesa published classified documents on his website

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Lech Walesa could find himself under criminal investigation after he published allegedly classified documents on his website.

The former president and Solidarity hero posted a memo on his internet blog that revealed, apparently, how the SB, the communist-era internal secret service, tried to keep tabs on him during the 1980s.

Dated from 1990, during Mr Walesa’s presidency, it revealed that in 1987 the SB used forged documents to buy a plot of land near Mr Walesa’s summer home in order to monitor his behaviour.

While the memo revealed the efforts the SB took to spy on Mr Walesa it could land him in court as the document may well belong to the ABW, the SB successor.

“In accor ...

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