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Tuesday 1 Jul.y 2, 1968 
6: 15 PM 
MEMORANDUM FOR 
THE PRESIDENT 
S UBJECT : Visit of Mr .. Alexandru Birladeanu, Deputy Chairman of the CounciJ of l:v1inisters of Romania 
The Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Romania, 
Mr Alexandru Birladeanu, is visiting the United States at my
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invitation$ accorr1panied by sjx distinguished scientific and technical 
people. 

After 10 days the visit can be pro:iounced a great succ esso He has met 
with Dean Rusk, Secretary Samuels, Secretary Weaver, Secretary Boyd~ 
Mr o Black~ Dr. Haworth, Dr. S eaborg and myselL He }1as visited 
Cape Kennedy, as well as industries and universities in New Yo:.·:,~ 
Chicago and Los Angeles so far o He has obviously been impressed by 
the openness and cordiality with which he has been i-eceived everywhere. 

The visit to Cape Kennedy was sensationaL Birladeanu originally 

regarded it as political and instructed his delegation to take no pictu1·es 

and ask no questions o He wanted nothing to mar his visit., After being 
told to take all the pictures they wanted and all their questions were 
anS"\VeTed, he acted like a young boy with a roomful of toyso The 
demo stration of Ame1·ican technological achievement was visibly over­
whelming. 
The purpose of Birladeanu1s visit was twofold: 
--To imurove trade and commerciaJ i-elatio:ns 
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--To expand and broaden s cicntific and technological 
exchanges and contacts 

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In addition, he had four specifics in mind: 
--The hr:!avy ·wa~~cr plant 
--Corn.putcl. s 
--Syntl cti.c rub1Jer 
--The,.~ ~ ~1-:>~.:i.Lty of scientific :r:escarcl-1 inrb:ur.:1cnts: whicL we 
have oftc. 1 u ... .ri ;cly, in Hl'f view, denied thr-....:·1 nnde1· COCO~vf. i·.:;strictions. 
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On the whole, we have met his expecLations 0 A commu.o.ioue will be issued jointly by Birladcanu and myself on Monday, July Sth 0 The attached draft ha3 be~n cleared b1 Comme1·ce and State Department and a\.vaits appro7al fron1 Bucharest. 
New ground i.s broken by paragraph 5, which states: 
"Both. Gover:i.1mcnts favor the development of relations bet.......veen An1erican and Romanian comrncrcial enterprises subject to the la\vs and rules in force in each c ountry0 F o:r-instance, they favor the development of: 
a) op,?ortunitics for cooperaticn between industr-ial 
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reseaTch and production organizations ; and 
b) exchanges of industrial knowledge and technology including arrangements in the field of patent licenses and knowhow with adequate p1· otection for industrial riahts 11 
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I consider this an advance in 11bridge-building11 since American industry has conTJ?l.aincd that they have had no clear signal on establishing co:n1nercial relations with Romaniao 
The only r~1naining is sue_ is the heavy water plant ·which you have app::...·ov...!d, and which Nick Katzenbach has cleared with Senator Pastore. The question is ·whether Birladeanu can take home word (at least confidcntally) of ·where \.Ve will come O'.lt. ::.'-Jick Katzenbach agrees t:'nat I should tell hin'"l info:-r ~ally that we will in all proba1;)ility a:::-9rove it, but that there a:!.·e still de~ails to be cleared up bcfor._: we can act for:cnally . The fact is that we are '.vaiting only until aft~the COCOM meeting and a:fter tbc adjournm~nt of Congress. 
In vic\V of the '\varmth generated by this visit and the success of your previous n1ceting w~th Prirnc Minister Maure1:, you may ·want to r.cceive Mr. Birladcanu briefly b\::forc he departs Ol".. the even:=..ng of July 8th. 
gV--'-''-<~j 21~~. 
Donald F. Hornig 
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