Customs officials at Warsaw airport have discovered and seized valuable historical documents and recordings from 1967-68, of Poland’s communist-era security, in two packages destined for the U.S., authorities said Friday.
The files describe the situation and views inside the communist Polish United Workers’ Party, or PZPR, in power at the time, as well as the social mood among students, artists, intellectuals and workers in the time leading to and during the 1968 students’ revolt and anti-Semitic purges, Deputy Prosecutor General Andrzej Pozorski said.
These events eventually led to a change of party and government leadership in Poland in 1970.
Pozorski said that some 11 sets of written files and over 100 recordings made by the then-dreaded Interior Ministry and regional militia authorities have been seized and passed to a state historical institute, IPN, that analyzes old documents, especially from World War II and the communist era. Pozorski is the chief investigator at IPN.
The institute confirmed the discovery, first reported earlier this week, to the AP Friday. The sender and the intended recipient in the U.S have not been named.
