瓦文薩否認曾充當波共政權線人
Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and hero of the anti-communist movement, was a paid informant for the Soviet-era security services, Polish investigators said yesterday, citing recently unearthed documents.
波蘭調查人員昨日援引最近重見天日的文件表示，該國前總統、當年反共運動的英雄萊赫瓦文薩(Lech Walesa)曾是蘇聯時代安全部門的有償線人。
Mr Walesa, who founded and led the Solidarity trade union that ultimately brought down communist rule in Poland and helped bring an end to Soviet control of eastern Europe, agreed to become a paid informant for the communist secret services between 1970-76, Poland’s National Remembrance Institute said.
瓦文薩是團結工會(Solidarity)的創始人和領導人。團結工會最終推翻了波蘭的共產黨統治，並幫助整個東歐擺脫了蘇聯的控制。波蘭國家紀念研究所(IPN)現在稱，他曾在1970年至1976年同意成爲共產黨安全部門的有償線人。
The claim, which Mr Walesa denies, comes just months after the return to power of Poland’s conservative nationalist Law and Justice party, which believes that communist-era officials still hold positions of power in the EU’s sixth-largest economy and need to be rooted out. Law and Justice leaders say too many have been able to carry influence, wealth and authority into the post-1989 era and that not enough has been done to prosecute them.
瓦文薩否認這一說法。該指控出爐僅僅幾個月前，波蘭法律與正義黨(PiS)重新掌權。這個立場保守的民族主義政黨認爲，共產黨時代的官員仍把持着波蘭（歐盟第六大經濟體）的實權職位，這些人需要被掃地出門。法律與正義黨領導人表示，這些人當中有不少人在1989年後的時代能夠繼續擁有影響力、財富和權力，官方沒有采取足夠行動對他們提起公訴。
The state-run institute said a cache of documents uncovered this week showed Mr Walesa — using the code name “Bolek” — provided information to the regime’s secret police.
國營的國家紀念研究所表示，本週發現的一批文件顯示，瓦文薩——使用代號“Bolek”——當年向政權的祕密警察提供了信息。
“There is a handwritten commitment to co-operate with the security service, signed: Lech Walesa, ‘Bolek’,” said the institute, set up in 1998 to investigate crimes committed by Nazi and communist authorities in Poland between 1939 and 1989.
“有一份與安全部門合作的手寫承諾，簽名是：萊赫瓦文薩，‘Bolek’，”該研究所表示。這家研究所成立於1998年，使命是調查1939年至1989年期間納粹和共產黨當局在波蘭犯下的罪行。
Mr Walesa, 72, an international celebrity and cold war hero who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for leading the campaign to restore democracy to Poland, has always denied claims that he collaborated with the regime he went on to campaign against.
現年72歲的瓦文薩是國際名人和冷戰英雄，他曾因領導在波蘭恢復民主的運動而在1983年被授予諾貝爾和平獎。他一貫否認他曾與自己後來公開反對的政權合作的說法。
In 2000, he was cleared of any collaboration by a special court. Before the announcement this week, Mr Walesa wrote on his personal blog: “There cannot be any files related to me...I will prove that in court.”
2000年，一個特別法庭判決他是清白的，稱沒有他與當局勾結的證據。在本週的宣佈作出之前，瓦文薩在他的個人博客中寫道：“不可能存在與我有關的任何文件……我將在法庭上證明這一點。”
Taking office in 1990 as the first freely elected president of Poland for 63 years, Mr Walesa’s popularity has waned over the past decade, amid accusations of collaboration and deep divisions in Polish society.
瓦文薩在1990年成爲波蘭63年來首位自由選舉產生的總統。但在勾結指控和波蘭社會深刻分歧的背景下，過去10年他的人氣下降。
The documents were uncovered at the house of Czeslaw Kiszczak, the last communist-era interior minister of Poland, after his widow reportedly attempted to sell them.
相關文件是在波蘭共產黨時代最後一任內務部長切斯瓦夫蘒什恰克(Czeslaw Kiszczak)家裏發現的，此前有報道稱，他的遺孀試圖出售文件。
