IPN calls in the prosecutor to find the "Wildstein list" culprit

The National Remembrance Institute (IPN) on Thursday informed the prosecutor about an alleged criminal action of "illegal copying and passing on of a database from the IPN archives" as the institute is unable on its own to find out who among the IPN employees passed the list of people who cooperated with the communist secret services to Bronisław Wildstein, a journalist who published the list on the internet. "We want the prosecutor to carry out the investigation as he has the suitable legal instruments," said IPN head Leon Kieres. Also, the Internal Security Agency (ABW) is on the case as the publicized list contains names of people working for Military Intelligence, files which were marked as strictly confidential. The Institute's is running an internal investigation to find out who selected the names of people that were put on the list which were collected from various archives, as it was revealed that it was not a ready made record but individually prepared by one of the employees. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 8) A.K.