Polish 'spy list' more popular on Internet than sex

A leaked index of more than 240,000 Polish citizens who reputedly spied for the Soviet occupation's secret police has outstripped sex as the hottest search item on the Internet in Poland, according to Agence France Presse on February 6.

"This thing is huge. We have recorded around 100,000 Internet searches a day for the list, which is 10 times the number looking for sex," Piotr Tchorzewski of Poland's biggest Internet portal Onet, told the Warsaw paper Rzeczpospolita.

According to AFP, the list "contains in alphabetical order the names of alleged agents and collaborators of the communist-ero secret service, mixed together with the names of those who were allegedly spied on.

"On Onet's web portal, it tops the list of search items, and visitors are referred to 650,000 links for the controversial collection of names that has pushed the attorney general to launch legal proceedings and Prime Minister Marek Belka to express concern for the safety of active intelligence agents whose names 'might' be on the list.

Journalist Bronislaw Wildstein discovered the list and "secretly copied it," according to AFP.