Lech Walesa, Poland's Nobel Prize-winning former president, was at the centre of an explosive political row yesterday following publication of a book which claims that the ex-Solidarity trade union leader worked as a secret police informer under Communism. The potentially devastating charges are contained in a 780-page work, The Secret Police and Lech Walesa, which has been written by two historians at Poland's Institute for National Remembrance, IPN, a government-backed group that specialises in documenting the Communist era. The authors, Slawomir Cenckiewicz and Piotr Gontarczyk, claim to have uncovered evidence which they say proves that in the 1970s, before Solidarity was founded, Mr Walesa collaborated with Communist officials under the code name "Bolek". Both historians base their book on information gleaned from the...
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