Some influential opinionmakers[9] and politicians in Poland are now declaring that, since the whole lustration process in the old format is essentially over, the secret police archives should simply be thrown open.
[10] The former head of the State Protection Office (UOP), General Gromosław Czempiński, and others have described a process by which counterfeit top-secret files and faked police reports were produced by the Communist secret service in the People's Republic of Poland.
Fałszywka (pl: fałszywki) contained fake revelations about opposition members' working as alleged police informants under the communist system.
[11] The presence of fałszywkas in the secret police archives makes the process of lustration extremely sensitive in Poland, leading to a number of highly publicized cases for slander or libel.
Many prominent politicians, such as the Minister Władysław Bartoszewski (a former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner),[14] and Professor Jerzy Kłoczowski (a member of the UNESCO Executive Board),[15] have been among their targets.