The Committee in Support of Solidarity (CSS) was an organization created on December 14, 1981, in

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to facilitate publication of information about

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.Archival Fond no. 137/10, Biuletyn Informacyjny / Information Bulletin Solidarity. Wyd.: Committee in Support of Solidarity / Komitet Pomocy Solidarności.. Nowy Jork, Information Bulletin no. 3.
/ref> The committee created its first Information Bulletin in New York City on December 22, 1981, during the period of

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in Poland.Archival Fond no. 137/10, Biuletyn Informacyjny / Information Bulletin Solidarity. Wyd.: Committee in Support of Solidarity / Komitet Pomocy Solidarności.. Nowy Jork, Information Bulletin no. 1.
/ref> Spokespeople for the committee as of December 12, 1982, were Miroslaw Chojecki, Jakub Karpiński,

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, Agnieszka Kolakowska, Irena Lasota, Piotr Naimski, and Eric Chenoweth. Press spokespeople were Christopher Wilcock and Agnieszka Kolakowska. To attract funding in support of Solidarity activity the committee was helped by the group of American-Polish scientists organized by Professors Stefan Niewiarowski of

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and Zbyszek Darzynkiewicz of the

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. The committee later became the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe.

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