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IPN search Jaruzelski's house

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Prosecutors working for the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) entered the house of late communist head of the state Wojciech Jaruzelski on Monday , private broadcaster TVN 24 informed.

The information was confirmed by the family of Jaruzelski, while the IPN refused to comment.

The raid follows the discovery of files at the house of former communist interior minister Czesław Kiszczak, which allegedly prove that Lech Wałęsa was a paid informant to the communist secret service in the 1970s.

Wojciech Jaruzelski was the First Secretary of the Polish communist party in the period between 1981 and 1989, the head of the military government during martial law and the first President of democratic Poland after the 1989 transformation.

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