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2005, 17:18 GMT 18:18 UK Late Pope's aide 'a secret agent'
Father Konrad Hejmo outside Rome's Gemelli Hospital where the
late Pope was treated in February 2005 Father Hejmo described
the allegations as 'absurd' A priest in charge of bringing
Polish pilgrims to the Vatican was a secret communist informer
during the era of Pope John Paul II, it has been alleged.
Father Konrad Stanislaw Hejmo, 69, was said to have collaborated
with the secret services in communist Poland during the 1980s.
The allegations have been made by a Polish institute
investigating Nazi and communist crimes in Poland.  Father Hejmo
called the claims "absurd" in a telephone call to Polish state
TV.  If he was providing information, then this would be very
sad truth Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek  He also told reporters at
Rome airport he was flying back to Warsaw.  Italy's Ansa news
agency said he had been in St Peter's Squ