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Thank you for your letter of 10 April with a proposed Agenda for the next round of Anglo/US Information Talks. I have had a word with Bill Zavis at the USIA.

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2. Zavis said that it had now been decided that Charles Wick would not (not) now be leading the US team although he felt obliged to add that Wick was notoriously capricious in these matters and might yet spring a surprise upon us all. You should firmly plan however on a US team of six led by Charles E(Sam) Courtney, the Associate Director of the Bureau of Programs. He would be assisted by Marlin W Remick the Deputy Director of the Office of European Affairs and William Zavis, the Country Affairs Office for the United Kingdon. Also in the team would be Bud Koreng old from the US Embassy, Charles Sylvester from the State Department and another person as yet unnamed from the NSC. Zavis had received a report from Sig Cohen which more or less mirrored the agenda you sent me subject to the following points: -

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a) The 200th Anniversary was seen as part of the introductory statements rather than a substantive item in its own right. This seems sensible do you agree.

b) The USIA hope that the heading: "East West Relations" would not be confined to security and arms control but embrace other subjects such as east west trade. If you agree we might distinguished between an item on security and arms control issues affecting East/West relations with two sub-sections: i) nuclear issues and public attitudes and ii) NATO conventional forces and burden sharing. Then East/West relations would be

a separate item in its own right.

c) Zavis suggested combining dis-information and the United Nations under one heading "Current Soviet Information and Dis- Information Activities". I see no objection to that.