U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY NAMES AREA MAN TO CAIRO, EGYPT, POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260004-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 13, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUI 131961
Area Man to Cairo, Egypt, Posj.j
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U.S. Information Agency Names
Glen Moore
James Halsem of, ashing-
tan C., anen Dore has ,
been appointed Inf ion Of
cer for to Amext an.F,m sst' in
E He will be in
charge of public affaig for the
American Consulate at offices lo-
cated in Cairo, Egypt. ?
He, his wife, the formes Alice
Cleveland of Devon, and their six
children have departed for their
new assignment and are looking
forward to locating in their new
home, exploring the Nile River
and making new acquaintances.
Halsema, former Manila news-
paperman and later correspond-
ent for The Associated Press in
Southeast Asia, joined the over-
was killed in an air raid. in
Halsema served as chief of the
Baguio Bureau of the Manila Bul- '
letin from 1940 unt ' he was in
terned by the Japanese on Dec-
ember 27-U"-,During his three
ygars.Af.?interment, he published'
both an open and .underground)
daily news sheet. Immediately;
upon liberation, he joined the
Associated Press as correspon
dent, first in the Philippines and)
later in Indonesia. Returning to,
the United States in 1948, he got
an M. A. degree at the School of I
Advanced International Studies in
Washington, D. C. He h as re-;
ceived his B. A. from Duke Uni-
versity in 1940, and took his pre-'
college training at a prep school!,
and served as an information offi-!, in the mountains of Luzon where,
cer in Singapore, Manila and:! his father was yst
sistant director for Far East of-jj~{' frig oflefd requests.
fairs, then Deputy Planning Di-IThe International Press Service
rector since 1959, director of plan-I is engaged in telling the story of
ning. America and the free world''
al War College, has been the U.S.
Information Agency's deputy as-
Born in 1919 in warren, Ohio, I through newspapers, magazines,
Halsema spent most of his first pamphlets, leaflets, picture storiesi
and displays to audiences in:
mare than 80 countries of t he
world. While he was near t he
Government for 30 years until he' Burma - Thailand border he dis-
--
World,,
a magazine published b~,r the U. S.
Information Agency for the use
in the Far East. It was'published
in to languages and reached an
estimated five million readers.
While in Washington, Halsema
and his family spent many week
ends on their farm in Walla
twp., near Glen Moore.
17 years in the Phillippines where
his father was an engineer and
public official for the Philippine
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