Claim Poland’s Lech Walesa was paid informant for communist-era secret security service

Seized documents show that Poland’s former president and Solidarity founder, Lech Walesa, was a paid informant for the communist-era secret security service, the head of the country’s history institute has said.

Walesa, the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, previously acknowledged signing a commitment to be an informant, but said he never acted on it.

In 2000, he was cleared by a special court, which found no evidence of collaboration.