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 American investigative team, but almost surely going unfulfilled if for no other reason than the lack 



of coordination in Washington. It is embarrassing to hear, 'Another team of Americans asking the 



same questions. You will go home and that will be the end of it." The almost utter lack of 



coordination of efforts and activities on our part has been costly. Top level interagency management 



has to be the blame. Without clear cut lines of responsibili^ and direction, duplication and 



ineffective coordination resulted. 



I have attempted to point out opportunities we have to assist Russia and ourselves in mutual 

 agricultural interests. I have tried to emphasize what I consider what we Americans have special to 

 o£fer and what some of the pitfolls are that go along with these opportunities. The Russians look 

 at us Americans as being special, we should take advantage of that and do nothing to belittle or 

 disappoint them. 



About my own badcground. I was bom on a wheat farm in the Panhandle of Texas, and agriculture 

 has been my career, begiiuiing as dairy and experiment farm manager in American Samoa following 

 my graduation firom the University of California at Davis. After three years in the Army, I attended 

 Stanford University where I earned a graduate degree at the Food Research Institute. From there 

 I went to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In hfovember 1989, 1 retired from the Foreign 

 Agricultural Service there and joined E. A. Jaenke & Associates where I am Senior Associate for 

 Former Soviet Affairs. 



My initial firsthand experience with the Russians came in 1963, ^en I was assigned to our embassy 

 in Moscow as Agricultural Attache. At the time I was an analyst in the Foreign Regional Analysis 

 Division of the Economic Research Service and worked for Dr. Lazar Volin, «4io was recognized 



