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(Warsaw) Poland's defence minister signed an order Friday that will give researchers access to most of the Warsaw Pact's top-secret archives, including decisions related to the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The document, signed by Radek Sikorski, will make almost all 1,700 volumes of files, currently held at the Defence Ministry archives, available through the state Institute of National Remembrance early next year.

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As an example of the documents on file, Sikorski showed a 1979 map detailing potential Warsaw Pact targets in case of a nuclear war with NATO - among them Brussels, Belgium, and the German cities Munich and Cologne.

Poland recently opened its secret police files, leading to allegations of past collaboration. In one case, a priest who worked closely with the late Polish-born Pope John Paul II was accused of collaborating with communist authorities. A Roman Catholic investigator later concluded the priest spoke too loosely about the inner workings of the Vatican but was not an informer.

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