Mgr. Michalik stated he has never been informed of his being registered as a collaborator. As he has never been informed when he was struck off the register, (in 1978) when he left for Rome. As possible circumstances of his registration (1975), mgr. Michalik listed the internal secret service system, in force since 1973, which set forth that people could be registered in the collaborators’ lists unknown to them. The archbishop mentioned that he refused to have any contact with the secret service officers when he received his passport for going to Rome in 1978, and he stated that he was not openly urged to collaborate by those officers on any other occasion. The Historical Committee determined that mgr. Michalik was registered as a collaborator of the communist security service, but in the (partial) documentation kept at the National Memory Institute there are no traces whatsoever of any factual action on his part. There are no documents to substantiate contacts either. Mgr. Michalik’s papers are incomplete since a large part of the communist secret service’s documents were destroyed after the fall of the regime in 1989.
