Polish Church Reports Secret Police Ties

A special commission of Poland's Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday that documents in secret police files showed "about a dozen" living bishops had ties to the communist-era secret services.

But a top bishop warned that the former secret police documents may not be an accurate guide.

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After six months of work, the commission said that among Poland's 132 bishops "about a dozen were registered by the security services of communist Poland as 'secret collaborators' or 'operational contacts,'" while one was registered as an "agent" of the intelligence service.

And the report will be sent to Vatican "for further evaluation."

How many people suffered at the hands of the communists because of "collaborators" or snitches may never be known.