"No more than about twenty among the current 132 Polish bishops were registered as people contacted by the Intelligence Service (SB) at the time of the communist regime, and just one was registered as agent of the Service". It is written in a note by the Historical Commission of Polish Bishops, made known in Warsaw today by the spokesman of the Bishops’ Conference, Msgr. Jozef Kloch. The note says that a few more priests who are part of the episcopate today were registered by SB agents as "candidates to collaborators", but the note also says that "such registration cannot imply any kind of collaboration with the security organs of communist Poland in any way, since it was a kind of repression". The Commission, which during the latest months analyzed the archives of the services located at the Institute of National Memory (IPN), stated that "most of the materials are defective since they were destroyed in the years 1989-1990, at the same time with the fall of the communist regime in Poland. (To be continued)
