Presidential candidate confesses collaborating with communist secret-service

The State Electoral Commission (PKW) has submitted the files of the seven presidential candidates to the screening court to check if any of them worked for the secret service under communism. The court has until to mid-September to screen the candidates. The screening process will involve a lengthy inspection of the archives of the Interior-, Foreign-, and Justice-Ministries, plus the State Security Office (UOP) for information that could implicate any of the candidates as former servicemen or informers. One of the candidates, Andrzej Olechowski, has already confessed to having collaborated with the communist secret-service. (Zycie, page 5) S.M.