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Santiago - 15 March 2016
1. Various of Poland's former president Lech Walesa walking into Chile's La Moneda presidential palace
2. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Lech Walesa, Former Polish President:++ ROUGH TRANSLATION ++
"Of course it is a lie, and the only thing that I can say is that in my fight against communism, I chose to fight communism messages."
3. Various of Walesa being received by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Foreign Affairs Secretary Heraldo Munoz
4. SOUDNBITE (Polish) Lech Walesa, Former Polish President::++ ROUGH TRANSLATION ++
"Those who are saying bad thing about me today, they just wanted confrontation and a fight (while he was president)."
5. President Bachelet greeting Polish ambassador to Chile
6. Various of Bachelet and Walesa meeting
7. SOUDNBITE Polish) Lech Walesa, Former Polish President::++ ROUGH TRANSLATION ++
"And I am sure that what they (his critics) say, the way to oppose communism, would have ended like Ukraine (now) or even worse."
8. Bachelet and Walesa meeting
STORYLINE:
Lech Walesa, the legendary anti-communist leader who played a historic role in bringing down communism in Poland and across Eastern Europe, responded again on Tuesday to claims that he was a paid informant.
Documents revealed publicly said that Walesa served as a paid informant in the 1970s for the same communist regime that he later fought.
Speaking from Chile's capital Santiago, where he met President Michelle Bachelet, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said those who were saying bad things about him just wanted a confrontation.
Walesa recalled how he talked to communists in the 1970s when everyone around him suggested that he shouldn't do so.
Walesa, now 72, has long admitted that he signed a document in the 1970s agreeing to provide information to the generally-hated communist secret police, although he insisted he never informed on anyone and never took any money.
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