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Polish anti-communist leader Lech Walesa has threatened to leave Poland after a second book accused him of being a communist spy as a young man.
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The former president and Solidarity leader said he was tired of defending himself against claims he collaborated with the secret police in the 1970s.
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The latest book on Mr Walesa's life, which was published earlier this month, repeated a claim that he spied on his colleagues in the Gdansk shipyards in the 1970s. It also alleges he fathered an illegitimate child. It was published by historians at Poland's Institute for National Remembrance (IPN), which investigates communist-era crimes.
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Mr Walesa was cleared of earlier spying allegations by a special court in 2000. Judges concluded that former SB security service agents had forged documents in his file in a bid to prevent him receiving the Nobel Peace prize in 1983.
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Some critics and Prime Minister Donald Tusk have voiced support for Mr Walesa, saying that the books are politically motivated. "We need Lech Walesa in Poland as an important authority figure," said Mr Tusk, himself a former Solidarity activist.
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