Solidarity priest was agent, says IPN

27th March 2009

Lech Walesa has hit out at claims this week that an anti-communist priest and key figure in the Solidarity movement was in reality a collaborator with the communist-era secret police (SB).

In a book published Thursday by the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) - the state organisation set up to
investigate communist and WWII crimes - researchers claim that priest Henryk Jankowski was an ‘operational contact’ who went by the code names of ‘Delegat’ and ‘Libella’.

Father Jankowski, who was active during the Solidarity strikes at the Gdansk shipyard in 1980, and who has since gone on to cause controversy by being openly anti-semitic and indulging in fine wines, fast cars and
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