Priest denies spying on Pope John Paul

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ROME (Reuters) - A Polish priest accused of spying on the late Pope John Paul said he had taken money provided by a suspected secret service agent, but denied he had been a spy.

"I was never an agent. You can call me foolish or naive, but not a spy," Father Konrad Hejmo said in comments published in Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Friday.

A Polish state agency overseeing communist-era files said that Hejmo, who looked after Polish pilgrims coming to the Vatican for some 20 years and had access to John Paul, informed on the Polish-born pontiff during the 1980s.

Hejmo said a Polish agent based in Cologne, Germany had come to Rome shortly after John Paul became pope in 1978 and had befriended a number of Polish priests.

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