A line of over 100 people wanting to buy the controversial book on the former president's alleged cooperation with the communist secret services formed outside the seat of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) in Warsaw this morning. 

Some get back in the line after they buy the book to get another copy since only one is sold to a person at a time. 

So far 4,000 copies were printed but it looks as if the demand far exceeds the supply.

Andrzej Arseniuk, spokesman for the institute, explained that IPN is not a publishing house, but a science and research facility, adding that the circulation is anyway much bigger expected.

However, he also assured that anyone interested in the book will be able to purchase it, since IPN has already decided to print a second edition, which will be available in bookstores at the beginning of next month. 

For the time being IPN is the only place where the book, alleging that Walesa cooperated with the communist secret services during the 1970s under the code name ‘Bolek’ can be purchased but Arseniuk assured that it will soon be available in bookstores all over Poland, in Warsaw as early as later today. 

The book, penned by Slawomir Cenckiewicz and Piotr Gontarczyk, two historians from IPN, is said to contain, what the authors claim are formerly unknown documents concerning Walesa's alleged contacts with the communist secret services in the 1970s.

Walesa featured as "Bolek" in 1992 on the so-called Macierewicz's List of secret collaborators with the communist regime in Poland. In 2001 a court ruled that the former president was not, in fact, a secret agent for the communists. (mn)