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The Nationalities Working Group was established on 20 January 1978 as a group within the National Security Council of the US, which functioned under the umbrella of the East-West Planning Group. It was originally headed by Paul B. Henze. [1] Other participants included the CIA veteran Jeremy Azrael. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kalinovsky, Artemy M. (2015). "Encouraging Resistance: Paul Henze, the Bennigsen school, and the crisis of détente". Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies During the Cold War. doi:10.4324/9781315758619-8 . Retrieved 16 October 2018.