http://news.excite.com/news/r/000811/08/poland-walesa-files Polish Walesa files may have been doctored - court Updated 8:31 AM ET August 11, 2000 WARSAW, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A Polish court, probing links of Solidarity hero Lech Walesa with the communist-era police, said on Friday that old Interior Ministry files used as evidence in the trial may have been doctored. The unexpected turn in the two-week-old trial appeared to support Walesa's declaration that he had not been an agent for the communist security police. The court said that according to freshly unveiled documents from the ministry, the old regime's security services doctored files on Walesa, founder of the Solidarity movement that toppled Polish communism, in order to compromise him. The services may have engineered the files to make Walesa appear as an informant in order not to let him be awarded the peace Nobel prize for his pro-democracy activities. Walesa -- expected to receive the prize in 1982, a year after the communist authorities imposed martial law to crush Solidarity -- became the laureate in 1983. "There was a plan to send a letter to the members of the Nobel prize jury. They (security services) decided to attach to the letter information revealing (Walesa's) secret collaboration," judge Pawel Rysinki told the court hearing. Walesa, the state president from 1990 to 1995, must undergo a court screening to be able to seek reelection in the October polls. Walesa's trial results from a recent law requiring top officials, including presidential candidates, to declare past links to the secret police. Those ruled to have lied are barred from public posts for 10 years. A special prosecutor has cast doubt on Walesa's statement that he did not collaborate, citing old files of the interior ministry, which allegedly linked him to an agent codenamed "Bolek," who informed for the security forces in mid-1970s. Walesa led a wave of strikes in 1980, which led to the creation of Solidarity, the then Soviet bloc's first free trade union. He was jailed in 1981 when the communist authorities imposed martial law to crush Solidarity. ^ REUTERS@ ============================================================================== http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/000811/world/afp/Court_clears_Walesa_of_collaboration_accusations.html Friday, August 11 10:34 PM SGT Court clears Walesa of collaboration accusations WARSAW, Aug 11 (AFP) - A special Polish court Friday cleared ex-president Lech Walesa of accusations he collaborated with the communist-era secret police, allowing him to stand as a candidate in the October presidential elections. "The court has concluded that Lech Walesa's declaration corresponds to the truth," chief judge Pawel Rysinski said. 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