It recounts a period in 1979 when she and her husband were subjected to heavy surveillance by the Communist secret police.

Not all thugs in Eastern Europe were Communist secret police.

Poland has just instituted a screening law designed to keep people who collaborated with the Communist secret police out of government jobs.

Two members of the disbanded Communist secret police were charged with the crime.

With the help of some former Protogerovists, their main activists were hunted by the Communist police and many of them killed or imprisoned.

They put up their posters in a bar - and were instantly rounded up by the Communist police.

The Communist secret police used them frequently, said Czempiński, stating also that often the officers who signed them were created out of thin air.

He then visited the grave of a priest killed by the Communist secret police and beatified a bishop who died in the Dachau death camp.

Hard-line émigrés speculated that upravenci were confidants of the Communist secret police.

Its headquarters were destroyed in early spring of 1946, when Communist secret police arrested hundreds of its members.