[United States Government Manual]
[May 31, 1996]
[Pages 686-693]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

301 Fourth Street SW., Washington, DC 20547
Phone, 202-619-4700
Director                                         Joseph D. Duffey
  Chief of Staff                                 Iris J. Burnett
Deputy Director                                  Penn Kemble
Counselor                                        Donna M. Oglesby
Executive Secretary                              Louise Taylor
Chairman, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public     Lewis Manilow
    Diplomacy
Vice Chairman, U.S. Advisory Commission on       William Hybl
    Public Diplomacy
Director, Office of Civil Rights                 Hattie P. Baldwin
Inspector General                                Marian C. Bennett
General Counsel                                  Les Jin
Director, Office of Congressional and            Douglas Wilson
    Intergovernmental Affairs
Director, Office of Public Liaison               Kimberly Marteau
Director, Office of Research                     Ann T. Pincus
  Deputy Director                                Stephen M. Shaffer
Associate Director for Broadcasting              Geoffrey Cowan, Acting
  Deputy Associate Director                      (vacancy)

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  Director, Voice of America                     Geoffrey Cowan
  Senior Adviser                                 Joyce Kravitz
  Director, Office of External                   Richard W. McBride
      Affairs and Development
  Director, Office of Budget and                 (vacancy)
      Planning
  Director, Office of Affiliate                  Myrna Whitworth
      Relations and International 
      Media Training
  Director, Office of Personnel and              Eva Jane Fritzman
      Administration
  Director, Office of Policy                     Steve Munson
  Director, Office of Program                    Frank Cummins
      Review
  Director, Office of Engineering                Robert E. Kamosa
      and Technical Operations
  Director, Office of WORLDNET                   Charles W. Fox III
      Television and Film Service
  Director, Office of Cuba                       Rolando Bonachea, 
      Broadcasting                                   Acting
    Director, Radio Marti                        Rolando Bonachea
    Director, TV Marti                           Antonio Dieguez
  President, Radio Free Europe/                  Kevin Klose
      Radio Liberty, Inc. (RFE/RL)
Broadcasting Board of Governors:                   

Chairman                                         David W. Burke
Members                                          Joseph D. Duffey, 
                                                     Cheryl Halpern, 
                                                     Edward E. Kaufman, 
                                                     Tom C. Korologos, 
                                                     Bette Bao Lord, 
                                                     Alberto J. Mora, 
                                                     Marc B. Nathanson, 
                                                     Carl Spielvogel
  Chief of Staff                                 Kathleen Harrington
  Director of Evaluation and                     Brian T. Conniff
      Analysis
  Legal Counsel                                  John A. Lindburg
  Congressional Liaison Officer                  Jon Beard
  Confidential Assistant                         Barbara Floyd
Associate Director for Information               Robert Barry Fulton
  Deputy Associate Director                      Myron L. Hoffmann
  Director, Geographic Liaison                   Pamela H. Smith
  Director, Thematic Programs                    Judith S. Siegel
  Director, Foreign Press Centers                Jacob P. Gillespie
  Director, Support Services                     C. Anthony Jackson
  Executive Officer                              (vacancy)
Associate Director for Educational and Cultural  John P. Loiello
    Affairs
  Deputy Associate Director                      Dell Pendergrast
  Executive Director, Cultural                   Marie Papageorge 
      Property Staff                                 Kouroupas
  Staff Director, J. William                     Ralph H. Vogel
      Fulbright Foreign Scholarship 
      Board
  Director, Office of Citizen                    Robert Schiffer
      Exchanges
  Director, Office of International              Lula Rodriguez
      Visitors
  Director, Office of Academic                   Edward McBride
      Programs
  Director, Office of Arts America               Coroline Croft
  Director, Office of Policy and                 David Michael Wilson
      Evaluation
  Executive Officer                              J. David Whitten
Associate Director for Management                Henry Howard
  Deputy Associate Director                      JoAnn Clifton
  Director, Office of                            Eileen Keane Binns
      Administration
  Director, Office of Technology                 Daniel S. Campbell

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  Director, Office of Human                      Jan Brambilla
      Resources
  Comptroller, Office of the                     Stanley M. Silverman
      Comptroller
  Director, Office of Security                   Larry Carnahan, Acting
  Director, Office of Contracts                  Edward G. Muller, 
                                                     Acting
  Executive Officer                              Daniel D. Dunning
Director, Office of African Affairs              Thomas Hull
  Deputy Director                                Cornelius Walsh
Director, Office of American Republics Affairs   Stephen Chaplin
  Deputy Director                                John Dwyer
Director, Office of East Asian and Pacific       Frank Scotton
    Affairs
  Deputy Director                                Nicholas Mele
Director, Office of West European and Canadian   John P. Harrod
    Affairs
  Deputy Director                                C. Miller Crouch
Director, Office of East European and NIS        Anne M. Sigmund
    Affairs
  Deputy Director                                Morris E. Jacobs
Director, Office of North African, Near Eastern  Kenton Keith
    and South Asian Affairs
  Deputy Director                                Jonathan Owen

[For the United States Information Agency statement of organization, see 
the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 22, Part 504]

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The mission of the United States Information Agency is to understand, 
inform, and influence foreign communities in promotion of the national 
interest; and to broaden the dialog between Americans, their 
institutions, and counterparts abroad. In support of that mission, the 
Agency conducts academic and cultural exchanges, international 
broadcasting, and a wide variety of informational programs. The Agency 
is known as the U.S. Information Service overseas.

The legislative mandates of the United States Information Agency (USIA) 
derive from the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act 
of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1431) and the Mutual Educational and Cultural 
Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2451). The U.S. Information and 
Educational Exchange Act's purpose is to increase mutual understanding 
between the people of the United States and the people of other 
countries. It prohibits, with certain exceptions approved by Congress, 
dissemination within the United States of materials produced by the 
Agency for distribution overseas. It also requires the Agency to make 
its overseas program materials available for public inspection at its 
Washington, DC, headquarters. The Mutual Educational and Cultural 
Exchange Act authorizes educational and cultural exchanges between the 
United States and other countries, as well as United States 
participation in international fairs and expositions abroad.
    The five executive level offices of the Agency are the Office of 
Public Liaison, Office of the General Counsel, Office of Congressional 
and Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of the Inspector General, and the 
Office of Research.

Activities

The activities of the U.S. Information Agency are based on two key 
premises. The first is that foreign public opinion is important and that 
USIA should work to understand it, with the hope that our understanding 
will be a factor in policy formation; to inform others about American 
life and values, policies, and interests as a nation; and, if possible, 
to eliminate misperception and move others to action in ways that serve 
the national interest. The second premise is that mutual understanding 
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people-to-people communication matters, and that USIA should serve as a 
facilitator to bring Americans and their academic and other 
nongovernmental sector institutions into substantive contact with 
influential counterparts abroad through exchanges and other programs.
    On this basis, USIA works to:
    --explain and advocate U.S. policies in terms that are credible and 
meaningful in foreign cultures;
    --provide information about the United States, its people, values, 
and institutions;
    --build lasting relationships and understanding between Americans 
and U.S. institutions and their counterparts overseas through the 
exchange of people and ideas; and
    --advise on foreign attitudes and their implications for U.S. 
policies.
    To accomplish its purposes, the Agency conducts a variety of 
activities overseas, including educational and academic exchanges, 
international radio and television broadcasting, English teaching, the 
distribution of transcripts and official texts of significant U.S. 
Government policy statements, maintaining information resource centers 
overseas with online reference capabilities, assisting the mass media in 
bringing information about U.S. foreign policy to audiences around the 
world, and facilitating linkages between American and foreign 
nongovernmental institutions.

Functional Elements

The four major functional elements of the Agency are the International 
Broadcasting Bureau, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the 
Bureau of Information, and the Bureau of Management.
International Broadcasting Bureau  The International Broadcasting Bureau 
(IBB) was established by the United States International Broadcasting 
Act of 1994. While a part of USIA, IBB receives decisionmaking and 
operational guidance from the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The 
Bureau consists of the Voice of America, the Office of Cuba 
Broadcasting, WORLDNET Television and Film Service, and Radio Free 
Europe/Radio Liberty.
    The Voice of America (VOA) is the International Broadcasting 
Bureau's functional element for worldwide radio broadcasting. VOA 
operates in accordance with the act of January 27, 1948, as amended (22 
U.S.C. 1463), which requires that it serve as a consistently reliable, 
authoritative, accurate, objective, and comprehensive news source. It 
must present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant 
American thought and institutions. VOA produces and broadcasts radio 
programs in English and 46 foreign languages for overseas audiences, and 
to over 2000 affiliate stations worldwide. Its programming includes 
world and regional news, reports from correspondents on the scene, 
analyses of worldwide events, feature programs, music, and editorials.
    The Office of Cuba Broadcasting is located within the Voice of 
America. It oversees all programming broadcast for Cuba on VOA's Radio 
Marti and TV Marti programs. In keeping with the principles of the VOA 
charter, both services offer their audiences accurate and objective news 
reports and features on American culture and opinion. Radio Marti 
broadcasts on medium and shortwave frequencies. TV Marti is available on 
VHF (very high frequency) and international satellite.
    The WORLDNET Television and Film Service is responsible for 
organizing and directing the International Broadcasting Bureau's 
worldwide television and film activities. The areas of responsibility 
encompass: producing programs and interactive press conferences for the 
WORLDNET satellite delivery system; newsfiles in English, Spanish, 
French, Arabic, Ukrainian, and Russian; producing and acquiring films 
and videotapes for direct projection or placement overseas; providing 
facilitative assistance to visiting foreign television and film 
producers; operating television news bureaus at foreign press centers; 
providing assistance to foreign broadcasters in the production and 
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programs; serving as the Bureau's primary point of contact with American 
motion picture and television industries; and coordinating with other 
U.S. and foreign government agencies on the dissemination of information 
overseas through motion pictures and television.
    Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc. (RFE/RL) is a private, 
nonprofit corporation funded by U.S. Government grants, broadcasting 
more than 700 hours weekly of news, analysis, and current affairs in 22 
languages to more than 25 million regular listeners in Central Europe 
and the former Soviet Union. RFE/RL also reaches listeners from U.S. 
Government-funded shortwave stations in Spain, Portugal, Germany, 
Thailand, and the Philippines and via satellite to local AM/FM stations 
including national networks in Ukraine, the Baltic States, Bulgaria, the 
Czech and Slovak Republics, and Kyrgyzstan. Major AM/FM stations in 
Russia, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, the Caucasus, and Central Asia 
also carry RFE/RL programs.
Bureau of Information  The Bureau of Information is USIA's primary 
source of information products for its posts and publics abroad. It is 
moving into new electronic communications media as fast as technology 
permits, while maintaining an extensive line of print products, 
operating a specialized wire service, facilitating the activities of 
foreign media in the United States, and operating a worldwide speakers 
bureau on significant issues in foreign affairs.
    The Bureau is introducing an interactive CD-ROM on student 
counseling and a weekly series of Internet-based electronic journals 
covering major issues to complement its wide range of electronic media. 
These products focus on representing enduring American values, 
particularly individual freedom and equality under the law, and on 
promoting democratization, market economics, human rights, the rule of 
law, and the peaceful resolution of disputes.
    The Bureau's offices and teams are organized around major themes in 
public diplomacy, regional concerns and interests, and media 
specialties. Its products and services are produced in response to 
requirements set by USIA field posts and U.S. foreign affairs 
priorities.
    The Office of Geographic Liaison serves as the primary point of 
contact with the field. In addition, it provides comprehensive research 
and bibliographic assistance and editing and distribution for time-
sensitive texts. The Office functions as a regional news service, 
providing operational support and advice to more than 100 USIS 
documentation and information resource centers and libraries overseas, 
and managing regional operations of the Bureau's international wire 
service, the Wireless File. The Office responds to the special needs of 
each of the Agency's overseas posts.
    The Office of Thematic Programs creates information products keyed 
to themes in American foreign policy that have been identified as vital: 
Economic Security, Political Security, Democracy and Human Rights, U.S. 
Society and Values, and Global Issues and Communication. Equally 
important is the Office's active speakers program, in which physical 
travel by the Nation's leading experts on identified issues is 
supplemented by video and audio conferencing with their counterparts 
abroad.
    Foreign Press Centers have been established in Washington, DC, New 
York City, and Los Angeles to give foreign journalists visiting or 
residing in the United States information about U.S. policies and access 
to policymakers. The Centers are affiliated with a network of locally 
initiated and funded International Press Centers in Atlanta, Chicago, 
Houston, Miami, and Seattle.
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs  The Bureau of Educational 
and Cultural Affairs administers programs authorized by the Mutual 
Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (the Fulbright-Hays Act), 
including academic exchanges, short-term professional exchanges, youth 
exchanges, cooperative projects with private organizations, and English-
teaching programs. It also provides staff support for the Presidentially 
appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship

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Board and for the Cultural Property Advisory Committee. The Bureau 
consists of four major offices:
    The Office of Academic Programs develops and coordinates a wide 
variety of academic educational exchange and English language-teaching 
programs. It oversees the administration of more than 7,000 grants each 
year to U.S. citizens to study, teach, and conduct research abroad, and 
for foreign nationals to conduct similar activities in the United 
States. The best known of the exchanges supported by this office is the 
Fulbright Program which operates in more than 120 countries. The Office 
of Academic Programs maintains a worldwide information network about 
educational opportunities in the United States, and supports programs 
which enhance the experiences of foreign students enrolled in U.S. 
colleges and universities. The Office also encourages and supports U.S.-
based studies at foreign universities and other institutions of higher 
learning. Worldwide support for English language training is provided 
through overseas-based language consultants, development of English 
language teaching materials, and a variety of teacher training seminars 
and fellowships.
    The Office of International Visitors arranges informative visits to 
the United States for more than 5,000 influential foreign leaders each 
year in such fields as government, economics, labor, journalism, the 
arts, and education. Selected individuals, who are nominated by United 
States Information Service posts, travel throughout the country meeting 
counterparts in their fields of interest. They also meet with Americans 
in their homes or other informal settings. The Office also manages the 
Agency's two reception centers; serves as the Agency's liaison with the 
large network of public and private organizations involved in the 
international visitor program; and arranges programs in the United 
States for United Nations fellows and foreign government trainees.
    The Office of Citizen Exchanges provides funding to American 
nonprofit institutions for international exchange and training programs 
which support agency goals and objectives. Nonprofit institutions may 
submit proposals only in response to requests for proposals (RFP's) 
published by the Office, and these proposals are judged among others in 
the competition. Programs usually involve professional, nonacademic 
exchanges--often with study tours, workshops, and internships as key 
components, and taking place in multiple phases overseas and in the 
United States. Emphasis is usually on nontechnical themes such as 
democracy-building, journalism, the role of government, or conflict 
resolution. The Office also administers all high school exchange 
programs sponsored by USIA, including major special initiatives in East 
Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the Congress-Bundestag program 
with Germany.
    The Office of Arts America administers fine and performing arts 
programs, sending performing arts groups and fine arts exhibitions on 
overseas tours. Arts America identifies and recruits specialists in the 
fields of literature, film, and the visual and performing arts to speak 
at or work with host country institutions in their fields of expertise. 
The Office also awards grants to American nonprofit institutions 
involved in the international exchange of performing and visual artists 
and encourages linkages between U.S. and foreign cultural institutions. 
Arts America also represents the Agency in the Fund for U.S. Artists at 
International Festivals and Exhibitions.
    The Office of Policy and Evaluation provides policy analysis, 
coordination, and evaluation of the activities and programs of the 
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Office also analyzes 
U.S. Government-funded international exchanges and training programs 
with the objective of promoting better coordination among government 
agencies. The Office is responsible for advising the Associate Director 
on conceptual approaches to the Bureau's activities and on the 
development and implementation of its policies. It coordinates 
activities with the Bureau to ensure consistency of approach; evaluates 
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and provides staff support to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, 
which advises the Director on U.S. efforts to curb illicit trade in 
artifacts.

Overseas Posts

Principally an overseas agency, USIA's work is carried out by its 
foreign service officers and staff assigned to American missions abroad. 
Overseas posts engage in political advocacy of American foreign policy 
objectives and conduct cultural and educational exchanges and 
informational activities in support of those objectives. The Agency 
maintains 212 posts in 147 countries.

Sources of Information

Administrative Regulations  Inquiries regarding administrative staff 
manuals and instructions to staff affecting members of the public that 
were issued, adopted, or promulgated on or after July 5, 1967, should be 
directed to the Directives, Forms and Records Management Staff, United 
States Information Agency, Washington, DC 20547. Phone, 202-619-5680.
Contracts  Contact the Office of Contracts, United States Information 
Agency, Washington, DC 20547. Phone, 202-205-5498.
Employment  For information concerning employment opportunities, contact 
the Domestic Personnel Division, Office of Personnel, United States 
Information Agency, Washington, DC 20547. Phone, 202-619-4659. For Voice 
of America and WORLDNET Television and Film Service employment 
information, contact the Office of Personnel, International Broadcasting 
Bureau, United States Information Agency, Washington, DC 20547. Phone, 
202-619-3117. For Office of Cuba Broadcasting employment information, 
contact the Office of Personnel, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, United 
States Information Agency, Washington, DC 20547. Phone, 202-401-7114.
International Audiovisual Programs  For information concerning a 
certification program under international agreement to facilitate the 
export and import of qualified visual and auditory materials of an 
educational, scientific, and cultural character, contact the Chief 
Attestation Officer of the United States, United States Information 
Agency, Washington, DC 20547. Phone, 202-475-0221.

For further information, contact the Office of Public Liaison, United 
States Information Agency, Washington, DC 20547. Phone, 202-619-4355.

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