[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 
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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 
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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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