List of Polish Spies Leaked On The Internet

An anonymous reader writes "A list of 240,000 names of Polish secret agents, informers, secret service employees, and victims of persecution was leaked on the internet in the last days and became an instant hit. The search for "lista Wildsteina" (Wildstein's list) sky-rocketed to 300,000 per day in the second most popular search engine in Poland (onet.pl) outperforming "sex" (former top query) by more than 30 times. The list appeared on many web sites, p2p networks, and was made into a searchable database. There are worries the list might contain names of active security agents, still working abroad. Google news has more coverage."

Comments

Interesting

[Pan T. Hose]

According to this story, Poland seems to have the second largest population of communist spies in the world, right after China. Suddenly some of the recent news stories about an unusual resistance of certain people against the introduction of capitalism in Europe which would be obviously harmful to the communistic status quo start to look much less surprising.

Free(not as in free beer)dom of speech

[incal]

Actually, freedom of speech in Poland is just a myth. A week ago one popular journalist Jerzy Urban was convicted for the insult of pope John Paul II, because he wrote that pope is an old, ailing man, which should retire many years ago.

Journalist organistations accepted this judgement exultantly, ascertaining that Urban has no rights to write something like this about (sic!) greatest moral authority in the world.

And Wildstein list? My father-in-law worked in '70 for polish military intel. I didnt find his (rather unique!) name on internet list. I suppose its just a worthless provocation of some people connected with Jewish diaspora in Poland.