VAST EXPANSION OF USIA ACTIVITIES ABROAD URGED IN REPORT TO PRESIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200150202-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 202
• Publication Date: January 12, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Gap~t in A#llriea~ard iericas Cited 25X1 a
Vast ~x a~sion of ? USIA Activitze
Abroad Ur~~cl in Re~iort to Preside
j report more stature than "just
A hold surge fot~wafd in thr'? anOthrr study" ,by an Admin-
size and concept 'gf',thq steak: istration in 'eclipse 'and could
required to project the-United ,Help stimulate .bipartisan ac-
States ima a to a world in ter- ttgn on'Capttol Hi11..
? g i;1n-language partially cush-
to 1 re>gt administration the report
rday by a White House study
roue. i ne'vcrthetes~. finds.. in effect,
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aecerd" with"much'ot the re-
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tera to prnvlde basic:~
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... irea]th; ,agriculture i~id ~ me: ,port" and "a great many,`.oi ;.
chatltCal trades to tliousande ?~its' conclusions and recommen=
of trainees at a time", -Axi,. }tlations." He-said hehas asked.
Itunity scholarships" far edu= be
in stpdying this "documerit~'
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I?icatlon; ~ be'awarded in open of ex ptioaal value."
1,competitic~l to yotmg people
Th.. aidant ~stA hp sharnrt '
--inunuc possloruuea r o r~ ~' - ??'? ? ??"- ~ ??'--- -- - or vanous: countries. ~~ CO tterr'i ,view about;
constructive change and equal-- setae itself hy~the ~c?ruff of ? tVlthout mentioninfi 1'r'es?
ly great potentialities of d~?~ fife neck and intensify Its ldent-elect Kenned7's plan for intorma needs in Africa.
and Latin America, and called
ger" loom ahead !n this dec? effects. ~ .a "Peace Corps" of Americans ,the Government training ideas'
ade, said President Eisenhow ,Amr,r~ its findings: ' to work abroad, the report
...worthy of serious attention."
The kale of the total
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similarly .suggested . lion 'Activities Abroad. ~ ~1::. ti. inforr;}atian effort will gram of training for yottn(1 Programs of educational de-
haI?c- to he progressivelti? ex- Americans to work abroad- in velopment, he said, c o u 1 d
Former Assistant Secretaryi T,andcd fur some time to .prove to bt the most mean-
- .performing such tasks as 'ingful of all, but he .cautioned
of D c f e n s e Mansfield D. ~ com~?. 'There i?: ur>zrnt need ? school teaching and assisting ?.
Sprague headed the 9-rnan~ for suh.,tantial increases in) In village .development" "'~ Elid two o! the Committee
' ?` members in axpresaing reser- .
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committee of governmen policymakera and outsiders.
They spent nine months study-
ing the operation of all United
States overseas information
President's advia?ra ask
more eulturt for "proniw
eial" Washington. Pape AJ..
work, plus the psychological
Impact abroad of 'its d (p l a
matic, economic, military and
scientific programs.
"Concrete, d r a m a t i c and - "Conitnuu-st China pre-
timely'?'? action was urged tq~ ?aenis a baffling and threaten
ing problem fc~? official infor-
o v e r c o m d admlitedly huge matlon activitly."
gaps in United States infor-, ? "~Vc arc now in a period
mation activities especially in when the mission and style of
Asia, Africa grid Latin Amer[ca. diplomacy is changing .
The report includes some of The .prospect is for a period
of protracted nQn-military
the most sweeping recommen- conflict bet?veep the Free
dations -and some of the. Norld and the Communist
bluntest admissions of short- syatenl" +ehieh "will reach
comings-ever made in=: th'e into every Portion of the
information field with ggpern- globe." The outcome will da?
merit. participation. They Come, 'pend considcrabh? an the de?
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Foundation !n which Govern- ;sensitivities of Alpert co~n-
menu representatives, educa? tries, said Sprague, bv? the~?
fora and scientists 'could. join. Buts of the report." he add-,
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creation of a National Secu-} Sprague, in contrast to news
city Institute, preferably under' ~~'~ during the recent prea-
the National Security`Council, identlal campaign-when this
document was not yet In fin-
was adsocttted to provide ~~ form-said, "We did not
"high-level training" -for the
"interrelated aspects of the consider it part. cf our jab to
present world struggle" eco? determine the status of U. S.
n o m i c , diplomatic, informs- prestige in any part of the
~-orld.
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crsasingly muss give'greater make uWe, he said, of a l.'nitetl'
?we are able to~emphasis to thrtactor of pub-~ States Jn'for,niition A gr` nr,v~
. . ironically, in the dying hours- greo to a?luch
of t.lir Eisenhower Administra? influence the attitudes of peo?!lic opinion in the handling af,.'atudy o4 prrsti~e slier the So?
Lion. Some of them mesh with pie.' ~ (major conterenceg and negoti-; Wet laarcchinq of Sputnik 1.
?-and even exceed-proposals Among correctives proposed:,ations, in the selection and The current rrpurt itself
tyeing c~~nsiderod by the incom- ? "A new approach in devel?;training of membrr9 of the touNithout
' oping a ma,ior program of F oreign ?Sei'+?icc and in our, q u r s t I'o n the.
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