plus necessary staff to service this croup, There is no provision at present for accommodating foreign mecia or foreign cbhservers either afloat or ashore (5 UK and 5 Canadian cfficial representetives are the exception to this statement). B. COURS© OF ACTION 3. The following ccurses cf action have been developed with the view to minimizing unfavorable impact on foreiyn climate of opinion: (2) No press be invited and a coorinated information program be developed by ADC and the Departizent of Defense to renlace press coverage, (Only UK and Canacien official observers would be present:. Comment: (1) This solution causes the least vroblems in terms of logistics anc pressures from other netions. State believes that tis will create the least public criticism and comment. (2) Defense has no objection to this solution, In ti.e absence of accommocations for personnel and full facilities for transmission of information and because of security restrictions limiting and complicating coverage on the spot, the U.S. Information ..gency feels that mare pretlems of a public information character would be raised by restricting coveraze to certain public information mecia than would be solved. <dAccordingly the U.S, Information Agency favors this solution.