Public Diplomacy in the Years Ahead: An Assessment of Proposals for Reorganization, Department of State, United States Information Agency : Report to the Congress |
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advising Agency's American Assistant Secretary British Council broadcasting budget Bureau of Educational CHAPTER concerned Congress congressional consolidated Cultural Affairs Agency cultural functions cultural programs Department guidance Department officials Department's Bureau Educational and Cultural effective exchange programs FIELD REORGANIZATION fiscal year 1976 foreign exchangees foreign opinion foreign public opinion Foreign Service Officer independent agency Information and Cultural Information Officer information-cultural Inter-American Foundation interested agencies million Mutual Security Agency operations organization overseas posts Panel notes Panel on International Panel proposal Panel personnel Policy advisory function policy articulation policy guidance policy information function policymakers present arrangement President professional proposal Panel rationale Public Affairs Officer relationship RESPONSE OF CRITICS Smith-Mundt Act staff STANTON PANEL REPORT State's suggested tion U.S. Advisory Commission U.S. foreign policy U.S. Government U.S. Information Agency U.S. policy U.S. public diplomacy United States Information USIA Director Keogh USIS VOA's Voice of America Wireless File
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Page 11 - The mission of the US Information Agency is to help achieve US foreign policy objectives by (a) influencing public attitudes in other nations, and (b) advising the President, his representatives abroad, and the various departments and agencies on the implications of foreign opinion for present and contemplated US policies, programs, and official statements.
Page 27 - VOA news will be accurate, objective, and comprehensive. "(2) VOA will represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions.
Page 1 - The Secretary is authorized, when he finds it appropriate, to provide for the preparation, and dissemination abroad, of information about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, and other information media, and through information centers and instructors abroad.
Page 24 - ... who now coordinates the activities of the press and cultural sections as a key member of the Ambassador's team would be abolished. The two sections would be completely separate and independent from each other, and would receive instructions from and report to two different agencies in Washington. A divided field operation would reduce mission effectiveness in utilizing and coordinating all the information and cultural tools available in support of mission objectives. The effect of the proposed...
Page 9 - ... DIVISION AND CONFUSION The Stanton report projects the new Information and Cultural Affairs Agency as a clearly separate and autonomous entity which should be detached from the day-to-day conduct of foreign policy. This concept of the new Agency and its stated purpose raises some serious questions. How much would mutual understanding be worth if the current problems and day-to-day issues which form much of the substance of relations between countries are intentionally avoided? Is there not real...
Page 6 - Act, Fiscal Year 1978 (Public Law 95-105), which provides that my recommendations for reorganizing these activities be transmitted by October 31, 1977. This reorganization will consolidate into a new agency, to be known as the Agency for International Communication, the functions now exercised by the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the United States Information Agency. The principal aspects of this proposal...
Page ii - ... policy" information — which covers the Government's "stance on foreign policy questions of immediate concern" — and "general" information. Like many other observers, GAO believes the two kinds of information are often mutually reinforcing and difficult in practice to separate. The primary responsibility for articulating and advocating as well as formulating US foreign policy is vested in the President and the Secretary of State. A role of the US Information Agency is to give resonance abroad...
Page ii - ... reorganizing the international information, education, cultural, and broadcasting activities of the United States. Pursuant to such request, the President submitted Reorganization Plan No 2 of 1977 on October 11, 1977, which would establish a new International Communication Agency by consolidating the functions of the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and USIA Such reorganization plan became effective on April 1, 1978. For text of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1977,...
Page 3 - ... Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 (96 Stat. 291). That Reorganization Plan consolidated into USICA the functions previously carried out by the United States Information Agency and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State. The Plan also provided for the merger of the US Advisory Commission on Information and the US Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs into a seven-member US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
Page iv - STAATS VERSUS STANTON STAATS: How US foreign policy is reported and advocated, especially by fast media and especially in moments of international crisis, can greatly affect the national interest for good or ill. For an agency billed and perceived as "the voice of America," there can be circumstances in which diplomatic needs ought to prevail over journalistic concerns.