USE OF USIC'S AND BIMAC'S FOR PROCUREMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00069A000100290018-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: February 24, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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CIA Librarian
Chief,, Foreign Branch
Use of USIC+s and BINAC'$ for Procurement
214 February 1955
USIA Report, undated, entitled: "TIT-3. Information Centers and
Binational Centers Abroad"
1. As originally outlined at a meeting between Mr. Henry
Loomis and his staff in USIA and members of the CIA Library, the
referenced report has been studied her* to determine what
potential, if any, the Information Centers and Binational. Centers
of USIA might have for strengthening the procurement of publica-
tions through facilities of the overseas establishments of the
Foreign Service.
2. At the outset, it should be made clear that prior to the
separation of USIS from the Department, certain USIS personnel
overseas had been assigned the ad-hoe PPO functions by the Chief(s)
of Mission of the area(s) concerned. This was particularly true
of certain posts in Southeast Asia, in the Near East, and in Latin
America. Since the creation of USIA as a separate agency, this
aseigr nt of certain USIA personnel in the capacity of act-hoc
publications procurement officers has continued, e.g., qtr. Maurice
Leach, USIA Librarian, Cairo; Mr. Harris Peel, USIA Information
Officer, Damascus; and Mrs. Maude Y. ?. Sandvig, :TSIA Librarian,
Mexico.
3. It is certainly recommended that the above USIA officials
be continued in their part-time assigi ents, barring full-time
replacements by the Department. As a matter of fact, it is
desirable that as mart' USIA elements in the field as is practicable
be responsive to the needs of Federal agencies in general in respect
to foreign publications.
b. As to the Information CerIters and Binational Centers
listed in the referenced report, there are areas covered therein
.ch could conceivably add to the richness of publications procure-
ment,, were we able to use them. In all cases, these areas are
those in Mich no full-and/or part--time ?PO is presently assigned.
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U. S. Information centers
Bins
1. Algiers, Algeria*
2. Rome, I
3. Copenhagen, Denmark
I. Oslo., Norwepr
5. Stociduam, Sweden*
6. Trieste, Free Territory of*
II. Near East, South Asia and A1rtca
1. Le opolrMlle, Belgian Congo
2. Tehran,, Iran*
3. Tel Aviv, Israel*
4. 'runts, Tunisia
1. Phnom Penh$ Cosbodisa
2. Vientiane,* Laos's
3. Kuala Luapar, *alr ya*
4. Manila? Philippines
IV. Latin America
Montevideo, Urugaw
'V. Binational Centers
Caracas, Venesuew1ae//
5. The center's :starred rdth an asterisk are those considered
especially iaportant, and would serve as a guide to USIA in indicating
our major areas of interest currently weakest from a procurement point
of view. These starred itmme are eleven (11) in muter, and vould
supplement very wa11 the posts now having fall- or part-time ??Of is,
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