Polish Business News Magazine

I was somewhat disappointed to see that journalist Boguslaw Woloszanski, undoubtedly the most popular author on World War Two history in this country, has been found to be a Communist era secret service collaborator.

According to daily Rzeczpospolita Woloszanski willingly supplied information, among other things, on activity of the Polish community in the UK in the 1980s.

Unlike Archibishop Wielgus who clearly did not tell the truth of his involvement, the historian has admitted he had carried out various assignments claiming - somewhat weakly in my opinion - that they were for the good of Poland and that they had not come from the internal security service but the external intelligence network.

(Personally I cannot see much of a difference.)

I hope this does not mean that they will stop showing his programmes on the television. They are models of fair mindedness, showing how the top brass - usually the Nazi  inner circle - resolving issues and he often comes up with ideas that no-one else has thought of.

I have never met him so I cannot say anything on a personal basis.  I wrote to him once and he did not write back but I suppose he gets a lot of correspondence.  My good friend Mike Tregenza met him once but unfortunately, according to Mike, Boguslaw Woloszanski was a little under the influence of alcohol at the time.

However as Woloszanski is not a supporter of loony right wing nationalist conspiration theories in his historical research, I suppose he can not expect the same level of support from the loony right wing nationalist conspiration theorists as Archbishop Wielgus received.