    [United States Government Manual]
    [May 30, 1997]
    [Pages 684-691]
    [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                                Joyce Kravitz
    Deputy Director                                   Penn Kemble
    Counselor                                         Anne M. Sigmund
    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
    General Counsel                                   Les Jin
    Director, Office of Congressional and             Carrie Isacco, Acting
            Intergovernmental Affairs
    Director, Office of Public Liaison                Marthena Cowart
    Director, Office of Research and Media Reaction   Ann T. Pincus
        Deputy Director                               Stephen M. Shaffer
    Associate Director for Broadcasting               Kevin Klose
        Director, Voice of America                    Evelyn S. Lieberman
        Director, Office of Public Affairs            Sidney Davis
        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 Review            Frank Cummins
        Director, Office of Engineering and           Robert E. Kamosa
                Technical Operations
        Director, Office of WORLDNET                  John Lennon, Acting
                Television and Film Service
        Director, Office of Cuba                      Herminio San Roman
                Broadcasting
            Director, Radio Marti                     Rolando Bonachea
            Director, TV Marti                        Antonio Dieguez
        President, Radio Free Europe/Radio            (vacancy)
                Liberty, Inc. (RFE/RL)
    Broadcasting Board of Governors:

    Chairman                                          David W. Burke

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    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 Analysis           Brian T. Conniff
        Legal Counsel                                 John A. Lindburg
        Budget Officer                                Mike Ringler
        Program Review Officer                        Bruce Sherman
        Confidential Assistant                        Brenda Thomas
    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                             Stephen Sinclair
    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 Fulbright          Ralph H. Vogel
                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 Policy and                Mark Taplin, Acting
                Evaluation
        Executive Officer                             J. David Whitten
    Associate Director for Management                 Henry Howard, Jr.
        Deputy Associate Director                     John Baker
        Director, Office of Administration            Eileen Keane Binns
        Director, Office of Technology                Daniel S. Campbell
        Director, Office of Human Resources           Jan Brambilla
        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                               Helen Picard
    Director, Office of Inter-American Affairs        Stephen Chaplin
        Deputy Director                               Linda Jewell
    Director, Office of East Asian and Pacific        Frank Scotton
            Affairs
        Deputy Director                               Nicholas Mele
    Director, Office of West European and Canadian    C. Miller Crouch
            Affairs
        Deputy Director                               Susan Ann Clyde
    Director, Office of East European and NIS         Robert E. McCarthy
            Affairs
        Deputy Director                               Paul R. Smith

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    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 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 Civil Rights, and the Office of
    Research and Media Reaction.

    Activities

    The activities of the U.S. Information Agency are based on the premise
    that government-to-government relations depend on public diplomacy
    strategies, because they affect individuals and institutions who
    influence their governments. Increasingly, foreign relations are not
    simply the prerogative of foreign ministries conducting communications
    along narrowly defined bureaucratic channels. On this basis, USIA has
    three established goals:
        --increased understanding and acceptance of U.S. policies and U.S.
    society by foreign audiences;
        --broadened dialog between American and U.S. institutions and their
    counterparts overseas; and
        --increased U.S. Government knowledge and understanding of foreign
    attitudes and their implications for U.S. foreign policy.
        To accomplish its goals, the Agency conducts a variety of activities
    overseas, including educational exchanges, international radio and
    television broadcasting, 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

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    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, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Radio
    Free Asia.
        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 oversees all programming broadcast
    for Cuba on 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
    telecast of cooperative television 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. It broadcasts
    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.

    Radio Free Asia  Established in 1996, Radio Free Asia is a private,
    nonprofit corporation funded by U.S. Government grants. It provides news
    and commentary about regional events, broadcasting in Mandarin Chinese,
    Tibetan, Burmese, Korean, and Vietnamese.

    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 has created 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

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    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 Washington 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 Board and for the
    Cultural Property Advisory Committee. The Bureau consists of the
    following 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 New York reception center; serves as the Agency's liaison with
    the large network

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    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.
        In addition, the Office 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 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. The
    Office 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
    the success, strengths, and weaknesses of programs; 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 more than 200 posts in 143 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, 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 Office of Human Resources, Civil Service Division, 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.

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    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, 202-401-9810.

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

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