Screening court clears former President Lech Walesa of spying for Communists

The screening court decided on Friday that former President Lech Walesa did not lie in his screening statement. Judge Piotr Rosinski said that besides unimportant documents and communist-era secret service's (SB) records, there is no evidence that Walesa was a collaborator. He stressed that there are no original documents about the agent called "Bolek", which was supposedly Walesa's code name, and there is no declaration of cooperation with the SB signed by the former President. The judge added that the collected evidence may even prove that original documents about Walesa's cooperation never existed. After the ruling, Walesa said that he is not happy because he does not believe the ruling could help really to convince his opponents about his innocence. (Gazeta Wyborcza, Aug. 12-13, page 1)