Sejm commission absolves State Security chief in Kwasniewski screening case

The chief of the State Security Office (UOP) Colonel Zbigniew Nowek says Communist Secret Service (SB) documents prove the secret pseudonym "Alek" should be attributed to President Aleksander Kwasniewski and sending them to the Screening Court was his obligation. The Sejm Special Services Commission decided he did not break the law by doing this. However, Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) leaders say it is, "pre-planned intrigue and provocation." They blame UOP of not sending the documents last summer but waiting instead until this July. Nowek said however there was no right time for him to inform society that the President is registered as a secret agent of the SB. However the Commission also ruled that UOP did not have the right to add its own annotations which suggest the President is registered as an agent of SB when it sent the documents to the Screening Court. (Rzeczpospolita, page A1, A2, Gazeta Wyborcza, page 1) E.B.