Close to John Paul II, a priest, accused of cooperation with the Polish special services, left for Warsaw

The Polish priest Konrad Haymo, who for a long time was one of the close employees of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican , hastily left for Warsaw. The Italian agency Ansa became known from Polish religious sources in Rome, RIA Novosti reports.

According to information from these sources, the priest intends to personally clarify the situation that arose in connection with accusations against him in cooperation with the special services of socialist Poland.

These accusations were brought by Haimo on the eve of Leon Khisore, an employee of the Polish National Institute for Memory (NIP), who is engaged in crimes of the Nazis and Communists.

According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica (translation of the material - on the website inopressa.ru ), a few days ago, Khimer announced his suspicions, and now, under the pressure of his closest associates, the head NIP named his name: Conrad Haymo.

Haymo's father, a 69-year-old Polish Dominic priest, has been working in Rome since 1979, and since 1984 he chaired the Papal Corda Cordi Papal Center, organized for Polish pilgrims. A few years ago, this center was located a stone's throw from the Vatican.

“From the documents of our archives it follows that Father Konrad Stanislav Haymo in the 80s was an employee of the Security Service of the Polish People's Republic and under the pseudonym Hainal and Dominic transmitted information about Karole Voitla,” said President NIP, an organization founded several years ago to preserve the archives of various spy services that acted in the communist era and submitted to the Ministry internal affairs.

“Absurd accusations,” Father Heimo immediately answered through Polish television. No one knows where he is currently located, some suggest that he is already flying to Poland.

This message excited Polish journalists attending the press conference that many of them did not hear the clarifications made by Professor Andrzej Pachkovsky (employee of the bonfire). According to him, Father Konrad did not appear in the archives of the security service as a “spy”, he was listed as “operational contact”, in other words, as an important source of information for the Polish special services, and this does not mean that he was recruited by these services. Pachkovsky also said that Haimo's dossier in the NIP has 700 pages.

“There were a lot of them, those who wandered around Rome in search of information, I knew some and can even name their names,” Haimo said in an interview with Polish television. Father Conrad is known to many Polish believers who came to Rome, he helped them meet with dad. Many remember him with gratitude.

The circle of his duties in the Vatican included, in particular, accompaniment at the audience of Polish pilgrims - both who came in groups and independently. In addition to input tickets for papal masses and general audiences on Wednesdays (Father Konrad prepared detailed lists of the arrivals, which were then represented by the pope), he had to accompany, always with the consent of the pontiff office, individual groups that came from Poland to personal audiences, which the dad spent before his illness for his compatriots. At these audiences, he was photographed with each of them.

This “right” Haimo attracted many Poles, who very often through him got the opportunity to see their dad, and it was from Haimo that they tried to get information about the pontiff. Haymo told what he knew. For people, these stories were often very interesting and unusual. But in reality, this information was limited only by some details about the lessons and movements of the pope, because Haimo, according to Polish experts, did not have access to other information.

“He publicly told everything that he knew about, I just can’t understand what was at stake,” commented the exposures of NIP Monsignor Tadeusz, the former rector of the theology Academy in Krakow. But it is possible that for the communist special services of Poland and such information was very valuable, concludes La Repubblica.