Wildstein list

Wildstein list

The Wildstein List is a list which is believed to contain the names of some 240,000 individuals who allegedly worked for the Polish intelligence service of the communist era (SB), or who SB considered recruiting (with or without their knowlegde). It is named after the reporter who supposedly secretly copied the list from the national archives, Bronislaw Wildstein. The list eventually found its way to the Internet. At least one Polish official has confirmedFact|date=May 2007 which is believed to contain the names of at some current agents working abroad.

The list contains names from archives of former (communist) Polish political police, military intelligence and other secret agencies. This list could contain former workers of those agencies and their secret agents (confidants), but also there are names of people that secret police wanted to make confidants but never succeeded. It is not clear how this list leaked from the IPN (Institute for National Memory), but it is commonly assumed that it was Bronislaw Wildstein who copied that list to his pendrive and then made it available for journalists.

The list has generated much heated debates. "Gazeta Wyborcza" the most influential Polish newspaper is very strongly against publishing the communist archives without a thorough historical analysis, because the documents can contain many false information generated by officers who spread disinformation. But the huge quantity of the information in the archives means that it would probably never be available for public viewing.

References

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1406281,00.html Poland in uproar over leak of spy files] , "The Guardian", February 5, 2005
*Michael Szporer, [http://www.polishnews.com/text/politics/wildsteins_list.html Wildstein's List: Time for Moral Cleansing?] , "Polish News", February 2005
* [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1480985,00.html Polish Secret Police List Opens Old Wounds] , "Deutsche Welle", February 8, 2005
*Wojciech Kosc, [http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id=b6c5bb01-5372-4ead-9283-0c5aca1b7454 Poland: Wildstein's List] , "Transitions Online", 7 February 2005


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