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Dr. MACE: Covering the press and Soviet disinformation? Well, I think most of the Commission realizes that we have one Commissioner who has published on this, and that’s you, Dr. Kuropas. You have done work on this, and I would hope that you would contribute in this respect There
are also other people who have worked on it Should the Commission decide to do so, we could consult particularly Professor James W. Crowl, who is in the State of Virginia and whose dissertation is on particularly the disinformation and the role of disinformation played by Walter Duranty and Lewis Fis¬cher. I’m sure you’re familiar with that monograph, and he’s available to help us on a contract basis.

I think that the whole mechanics of disinformation and the lack of Western press coverage has to be one of the major focuses of our work.

Related to this is Item 4, which is the creation of a scholarly council, sort of an open-ended thing, to try to get input from members of the academic community and others who have something to contribute, and also to help coordinate the efforts of people who want to volunteer their services, and to, you know, provide for scholarly input into the work of the community.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Okay. We did discuss this point a little bit earlier when we were looking at the budget, I believe.
Are there any other questions?
Dr. KUROPAS: As to fund-raising—Point five—have you thought about how this might be done?
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Well, I think one of the ways is to prepare events in the com¬munity that would highlight the existence of the Commission and to solicit contribu¬tions from the public or to have dinners, fund-raising things like that, to have mem¬bers of the Commission take part in these with the express purpose of supporting the work of the congressional Commission.
Mr. MAYNES: Might I suggest that you consider an event that has as its purpose raising funds being associated with hearings that are outside of Washington? I think it might be easier to work on and create a greater sense of focus.
Ms. MAZURKEVICH: Well, what we probably would do is we would hold hearings that we would have survivors of the famine appear at, and at that point we would have some of the congressional members there, and then we could charge a fee, $10 or what have you, for people to come in, and then the Ukrainian community is very generous. They would probably pull out a checkbook anyway and write a little check.
Dr. MACE: However, I do not believe it is legal to charge admission to open meet¬ings by public bodies.
Ms. MAZURKEVICH: Donations?
Dr. MACE: I think what-
Mr. MAYNES: What I was suggesting was some sort of an event that might follow your hearings.
Dr. MACE: A luncheon, reception, something of that nature, yes. That’s perfectly legal.
Mr. MAYNES: I think you create the focus with your hearing, and then use the fact that you’ve got the focus to extend your public activity into a fund raiser.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Go ahead.