Both original August Agreements missing with 20th anniversary looming

One week before the 20th anniversary of the signing of the August Agreements by the Solidarity trade union and the Communist government, it appears the two originals of the historic documents are lost. All of Poland watched former President Lech Walesa sign the documents on Aug. 31, 1980 with a huge pen he later donated to the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa. However, the whereabouts of the 'Solidarity' original of the document is unknown. Bogdan Lis, one of the signatories of the pact, says this copy was stolen by the Communist-era secret service (SB). The government kept the second original, but now only duplicates can be found in the government archives. There is still a chance the original could be in the Presidential archives. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 3)