Prime Minister Belka admits he signed collaboration document, but denies spying
Prime Minister Marek Belka made his communist secret police file public in a bid to show that he never collaborated, even though he admits he signed an agreement to spy.
President Aleksandr Kwaśniewski, a former Communist who has packed his government with secret police collaborators, says there is no reason for Belka to resign.
There is no evidence Belka ever served as a secret police collaborator. However, Polish news reports show that Belka did secretly sign an agreement to inform for the Jaruzelski regime.
Balka admits he signed the agreement 20 years ago, but called it a pro forma paper that any scholar or professional who traveled abroad under the Soviet-controlled regime. "I have signed the instruction and I didn't make a secret of it. But I did not treat it as a commitment to cooperate with secret services," he said, according to the Warsaw Business Journal.
President Aleksandr Kwaśniewski, a former Communist who has packed his government with secret police collaborators, says there is no reason for Belka to resign.
There is no evidence Belka ever served as a secret police collaborator. However, Polish news reports show that Belka did secretly sign an agreement to inform for the Jaruzelski regime.
Balka admits he signed the agreement 20 years ago, but called it a pro forma paper that any scholar or professional who traveled abroad under the Soviet-controlled regime. "I have signed the instruction and I didn't make a secret of it. But I did not treat it as a commitment to cooperate with secret services," he said, according to the Warsaw Business Journal.
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