'DIPLOMACY' FUNDS SEPARATE FROM ARMS EFFORT, STATE SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200920013-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 9, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHTNGTON POST
9 FEBRUAFY 1983
`Diploinacy' Funds Separate
From Aims Effort, State Says
The Reagan. administration has
said that none of the $65 million it is
seeking to launch a global "public di-
plomacy" campaign will be used to
promote U.S. arms control policies
in Europe, and it said the CIA will
have no connection with the effort
Lawrence S. Eagleburger,. under-
eecretary of state for political affairs,
told a news conference Monday that
.initial press -accounts of the pro-
posed program- had confused it with
a separate effort by Peter. Dailey,
i;I.& ambassador to Ireland, that will
focus exclusively on trying. to do a
better job of explaining U.S. arms
control policies to western E rope., .
.v Eagleburger said the $65 million,
-which -the administration is ached-
tiled to-request -from Qqmss Feb. would be no CIA involvement." - '
23, is to fund a "program of democ-
racy and public diplomacy" intended
to strengthen "advocates of democ-
racy in countries where it is a shaky
or iffy proposition."
For that reason, Eagleburger
added, very little of the money will
be directed toward western Europe.
Instead, he said, most will go for
programs of education, leadership
training and exchanges of ideas in
Third World areas. -
Eagleburger -acknowledged that
some of the "option papers" drawn
up during the planning of the pro-
gramiiad discussed the possibility of
rCIA 4nvolvemen. Bowever, 4-irk'
sisted; `A firm,-fiat-decision, was
madeit very senioTievels flat-them
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