During an interview with neoTVP, Lech Wałęsa denied collaborating with the communist security service. “The more they suspect me, the higher I rise,” Wałęsa responded when asked about the allegations of his cooperation with the Security Service.
The issue of Lech Wałęsa’s cooperation with the Security Service kicked off the former president’s conversation on TVP Info. Wałęsa again denied that he reported to the communist regime as TW (abbrev. ‘covert agent’ – ed.) Bolek.
Wałęsa and Bolek
“I am a practitioner who thinks differently than many theorists. Making me Bolek is the greatest honor from my point of view. Because they can’t believe that this simple man, this electrician, accomplished such things. Someone must have helped him. They look at who, they are working out the names. They can’t find anyone. So who? The security service,” Wałęsa explained.
“Who framed me as Bolek?” Wałęsa continued. “It was a dossier developed against me, which they turned into an agent’s file,” he added.
“If they had wanted me as an agent, I probably would have agreed, because I was a hero then. I believed I could go inside and blow them up… But they didn’t want me as an agent,” he stated.
In a statement from April 11, 2019, the Institute of National Remembrance announced that the issue of Lech Wałęsa’s cooperation with the Security Service in the first half of the 1970s is indisputable.
This is confirmed not only by the original files found after the death of Czesław Kiszczak (personal file and work file of the secret collaborator codenamed “Bolek”), but also by the preserved records of the SB. Information about it can also be found in many other documents, not only from Polish security, but also, for example, Czechoslovakian – as can be read in the statement on the website of the Institute of National Remembrance.