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10. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant (Harlow) to the Director of the United States Information Agency (Shakespeare)1

Washington, February 26, 1969

In conversation with leaders in Congress, the suggestion has been made that the USIA undertake an international program of publicizing the contrast between the way in which the United States treats its [Page 22] allies and the forceful manner in which the Soviet Union threatens its satellites. We discuss and negotiate; they send in tanks; etc. The President’s current trip2 is one example, and the use of USSR military in Czechoslovakia is another.

Bryce N. Harlow3
  1. Source: National Archives, RG 306, Director’s Subject Files, 1968–1972, Entry A1–42, Box 1, INF–Information (General). No classification marking. Loomis initialed the top right-hand corner of the memorandum.↩
  2. See footnote 3, Document 8.↩
  3. Harlow signed “Bryce” above this typed signature.↩