"I did not cooperate with the security agency. I did not take any money," Walesa wrote, adding that he had made a "mistake." He added that he would not revel details of the "mistake."
"There is a person - a perpetrator, who is still alive who should reveal the truth and I`m counting on it. I had a soft heart," the Nobel Laureate said in his microblog.
Walesa`s comments came a day after Lukasz Kaminski, director of Poland`s National Remembrance Institute (IPN), reported about a secret service document signed by Walesa. The IPN is responsible for prosecuting Communist-era crimes.
The paper included a commitment to provide information from 1970-1976 and had been signed by Walesa under the codename "Bolek."
However, IPN`s Kaminski said on Thursday that every historical document had to be verified and an authentic intelligence agency document did not necessarily mean that its content was true.
Walesa, currently on a trip to Venezuela, admitted he had signed a commitment to be an informant during the 1970s, but said he never acted on it. A special court cleared him of charges of collaboration 16 years ago.
The 72-year-old leader is best known for launching the workers` party Solidarity in 1980, against the wishes of the Communist regime. He served as Poland`s first post-Communist president from 1990 to 1995. The leader is still politically active and launched a scathing attack against the government last year, calling for early elections.
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