Screening Court to rule on former Prime Minister's communist informant case

The Screening Court is expected is to rule on Sept. 15 whether former Prime Minister and one of the leaders of the opposition Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Jozef Oleksy was an informer of the communist-era secret service (SB). Yesterday the court heard testimony from one of the last military intelligence officers during the communist-era. The media prompted the case by reporting that that Oleksy could have collaborated with military intelligence launching a request by the public interest watchdog Boguslaw Nizienski to have his files screened. Oleksy is alleged to have attended a course while he was a reservist for the Polish army. The former Prime Minister emerged from the hearing saying he was confident the court in September would rule in his favor as his adversaries had so far failed to produce any credible information to implicate him. (Rzeczpospolita, page A2)