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Sources of Information the Administrative Services and Complaints Complaints alleging denials Clearinghouse Division, Room 550, 624 of civil rights may be reported to Ninth Street NW., Washington, DC Complaints Referral, 624 Ninth Street 20425. Phone, 202–376–8105. A catalog NW., Washington, DC 20425. Phone, of publications may be obtained from 202–376–8513 or 800–552–6843 (toll- this office. free). Reading Room The National Civil Employment Personnel Office, Room Rights Clearinghouse Library is located 510, 624 Ninth Street NW., Washington, in Room 602, 624 Ninth Street NW., DC 20425. Phone, 202–376–8364. Washington, DC 20425. Phone, 202– Publications Commission publications 376–8110. are made available upon request from

For further information, contact the Public Affairs Unit, United States Commission on Civil Rights, Room 730, 624 Ninth Street NW., Washington, DC 20425. Phone, 202–376–8312. TTY, 202–376–8116.

UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY 301 Fourth Street SW., Washington, DC 20547 Phone, 202–619–4700. Internet, http://www.usia.gov/.

Director JOSEPH D. DUFFEY Chief of Staff JOYCE KRAVITZ Deputy Director PENN KEMBLE Counselor HARRIET L. ELAM Chairman, U.S. Advisory Commission on LEWIS MANILOW 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 RONNA A. FREIBERG Intergovernmental Affairs Director, Office of Public Liaison MARTHENA COWART Director, Office of Research and Media ANN T. PINCUS Reaction 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 Planning (VACANCY) Director, Office of Affiliate Relations and MYRNA WHITWORTH 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 Television JOHN LENNON, Acting and Film Service Director, Office of Broadcasting HERMINIO SAN ROMAN

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Director, Radio Marti ROLANDO BONACHEA Director, TV Marti ANTONIO DIEGUEZ President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, (VACANCY) Inc. (RFE/RL) Broadcasting Board of Governors: Chairman DAVID W. BURKE Members JOSEPH D. DUFFEY, CHERYL HALPERN, EDWARD E. KAUFMAN,T OM C. KOROLOGOS, BETTE BAO LORD, ALBERTO J. MORA, MARC B. NATHANSON, 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 (VACANCY) Deputy Associate Director MYRON L. HOFFMANN Director, Geographic Liaison J. DAVIS HAMELL Director, Thematic Programs JUDITH S. SIEGEL Director, Foreign Press Centers MARJORIE RANSOM Director, Support Services C. ANTHONY JACKSON Executive Officer STEPHEN SINCLAIR Associate Director for Educational and Cultural JOHN P. LOIELLO Affairs Deputy Associate Director ROBERT L. EARLE Executive Director, Cultural Property Staff MARIE PAPAGEORGE KOUROUPAS Staff Director, J. William Fulbright Foreign RALPH H. VOGEL Scholarship Board Director, Office of Citizen Exchanges BRIAN SEXTON Director, Office of International Visitors LESLIE A. WILEY Director, Office of Academic Programs KEITH GIEGER Director, Office of Policy and Evaluation VAN S. WUNDER 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 Comptroller STANLEY M. SILVERMAN 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 MARILYN HULBERT Deputy Director PATRICK J. CORCORAN Director, Office of Inter-American Affairs LINDA JEWELL Deputy Director BARBARA MOORE Director, Office of East Asian and Pacific WILLIAM MAURER Affairs Deputy Director NICHOLAS MELE Director, Office of West European and C. MILLER CROUCH Canadian Affairs Deputy Director SUSAN ANN CLYDE

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Director, Office of East European and NIS ROBERT E. MCCARTHY Affairs Deputy Director PAUL R. SMITH Director, Office of North African, Near Eastern, DAVID P. GOOD 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]

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 governments. Increasingly, foreign States Information Agency (USIA) derive relations are not simply the prerogative from the United States Information and of foreign ministries conducting Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 communications along narrowly defined U.S.C. 1431) and the Mutual Educational bureaucratic channels. On this basis, and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 USIA has three established goals: U.S.C. 2451). The U.S. Information and —increased understanding and Educational Exchange Act’s purpose is to acceptance of U.S. policies and U.S. increase mutual understanding between society by foreign audiences; the people of the United States and the —broadened dialog between people of other countries. It prohibits, American and U.S. institutions and their with certain exceptions approved by counterparts overseas; and Congress, dissemination within the —increased U.S. Government United States of materials produced by knowledge and understanding of foreign the Agency for distribution overseas. It attitudes and their implications for U.S. also requires the Agency to make its foreign policy. overseas program materials available for To accomplish its goals, the Agency public inspection at its Washington, DC, conducts a variety of activities overseas, headquarters. The Mutual Educational including educational exchanges, and Cultural Exchange Act authorizes international radio and television educational and cultural exchanges broadcasting, distribution of transcripts between the United States and other and official texts of significant U.S. countries, as well as United States Government policy statements, participation in international fairs and maintaining information resource centers expositions abroad. overseas with online reference The executive level offices of the capabilities, assisting the mass media in Agency are the Office of Public Liaison, bringing information about U.S. foreign Office of the General Counsel, Office of policy to audiences around the world, Congressional and Intergovernmental and facilitating linkages between Affairs, Office of Civil Rights, and the American and foreign nongovernmental Office of Research and Media Reaction. institutions.

Activities Functional Elements The activities of the U.S. Information The four major functional elements of Agency are based on the premise that the Agency are the International government-to-government relations Broadcasting Bureau, the Bureau of depend on public diplomacy strategies, Educational and Cultural Affairs, the because they affect individuals and Bureau of Information, and the Bureau of institutions who influence their Management.

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International Broadcasting Bureau The encompass: producing programs and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) interactive press conferences for the was established by the United States WORLDNET satellite delivery system; International Broadcasting Act of 1994. newsfiles in English, Spanish, French, While a part of USIA, IBB receives , Mandarin, Polish, Serbian, decisionmaking and operational Ukrainian, and Russian; producing and guidance from the Broadcasting Board of acquiring films and videotapes for direct Governors. The Bureau consists of the projection or placement overseas; Voice of America, the Office of Cuba providing facilitative assistance to Broadcasting, and WORLDNET visiting foreign television and film Television and Film Service. Two other producers; operating television U.S. Government entities, Radio Free bureaus at foreign press centers; Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free providing assistance to foreign Asia, are grantee organizations that broadcasters in the production and receive annual grants of congressionally telecast of cooperative television appropriated funds from the programs; serving as the Bureau’s Broadcasting Board of Governors. primary point of contact with American The Voice of America (VOA) is the motion picture and television industries; International Broadcasting Bureau’s and coordinating with other U.S. and functional element for worldwide radio foreign government agencies on the broadcasting. VOA operates in dissemination of information overseas accordance with the act of January 27, through motion pictures and television. 1948, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1463), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Radio which requires that it serve as a Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc. (RFE/RL) consistently reliable, authoritative, is a private, nonprofit corporation funded accurate, objective, and comprehensive by U.S. Government grants. It broadcasts news source. It must present a balanced more than 700 hours weekly of news, and comprehensive projection of analysis, and current affairs in 23 significant American thought and languages to more than 25 million institutions. VOA produces and regular listeners in Central Europe and broadcasts radio programs in 52 the former . RFE/RL also languages, including English, for reaches listeners from U.S. Government- overseas audiences, and to over 1,100 funded shortwave stations in , affiliate stations worldwide. Its , , , and the programming includes world and and via satellite to local AM/ regional news, reports from correspondents on the scene, analyses of FM stations including national networks worldwide events, feature programs, in , the Baltic States, , music, and editorials. the Czech and Slovak Republics, and The Office of Cuba Broadcasting Kyrgyzstan. Major AM/FM stations in oversees all programming broadcast for , the former Yugoslavia, , Cuba on Radio Marti and TV Marti the Caucasus, and Central Asia also programs. In keeping with the principles carry RFE/RL programs. of the VOA charter, both services offer Established in 1996, their audiences accurate and objective Radio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit news reports and features on American corporation funded by U.S. Government culture and opinion. Radio Marti grants. It provides news and commentary broadcasts on medium and shortwave about regional events, broadcasting in frequencies. TV Marti is available on , Tibetan, Burmese, VHF (very high frequency) and Korean, Lao, Khmer, and Vietnamese. international satellite. Bureau of Information The Bureau of The WORLDNET Television and Film Information is USIA’s primary source of Service is responsible for organizing and information products for its posts and directing the International Broadcasting publics abroad. It is moving into new Bureau’s worldwide television and film electronic communications media as fast activities. The areas of responsibility as technology permits, while maintaining

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an extensive line of print products, conferencing with their counterparts operating a specialized wire service, abroad. facilitating the activities of foreign media Foreign Press Centers have been in the United States, and operating a established in Washington, DC, New worldwide speakers bureau on York City, and to give significant issues in foreign affairs. foreign journalists visiting or residing in The Bureau has created an interactive the United States information about U.S. CD–ROM on student counseling and a policies and access to policymakers. The weekly series of Internet-based electronic Centers are affiliated with a network of journals covering major issues to locally initiated and funded International complement its wide range of electronic Press Centers in Atlanta, Chicago, media. These products focus on Houston, Miami, and Seattle. representing enduring American values, Bureau of Educational and Cultural particularly individual freedom and Affairs The Bureau of Educational and equality under the law, and on Cultural Affairs administers programs promoting democratization, market authorized by the Mutual Educational economics, human rights, the rule of and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (the law, and the peaceful resolution of Fulbright-Hays Act), including academic disputes. exchanges, short-term professional The Bureau’s offices and teams are exchanges, youth exchanges, organized around major themes in cooperative projects with private public diplomacy, regional concerns and organizations, and English-teaching interests, and media specialties. Its programs. It also provides staff support products and services are produced in for the Presidentially appointed J. response to requirements set by USIA William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship field posts and U.S. foreign affairs Board and for the Cultural Property priorities. Advisory Committee. The Bureau The Office of Geographic Liaison consists of the following offices: serves as the primary point of contact The Office of Academic Programs with the field. In addition, it provides develops and coordinates a wide variety comprehensive research and of academic educational exchange and bibliographic assistance and editing and -teaching programs. It distribution for time-sensitive texts. The oversees the administration of more than Office functions as a regional news 7,000 grants each year to U.S. citizens service, providing operational support to study, teach, and conduct research and advice to more than 100 USIS abroad, and for foreign nationals to documentation and information resource conduct similar activities in the United centers and libraries overseas, and States. The best known of the exchanges managing regional operations of the supported by this office is the Fulbright Bureau’s international wire service, the Program which operates in more than Washington File. The Office responds to 120 countries. The Office of Academic the special needs of each of the Programs maintains a worldwide Agency’s overseas posts. information network about educational The Office of Thematic Programs opportunities in the United States, and creates information products keyed to supports programs which enhance the themes in American foreign policy that experiences of foreign students enrolled have been identified as vital: Economic in U.S. colleges and universities. The Security, Political Security, Democracy Office also encourages and supports and Human Rights, U.S. Society and U.S.-based studies at foreign universities Values, and Global Issues and and other institutions of higher learning. Communication. Equally important is the Worldwide support for English language Office’s active speakers program, in training is provided through overseas- which physical travel by the Nation’s based language consultants, leading experts on identified issues is development of English language supplemented by video and audio teaching materials, and a variety of

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teacher training seminars and In addition, the Office identifies and fellowships. recruits specialists in the fields of literature, film, and the visual and The Office of International Visitors performing arts to speak at or work with arranges informative visits to the United host country institutions in their fields of States for almost 5,000 influential foreign expertise. The Office awards grants to leaders each year in such fields as American nonprofit institutions involved government, economics, labor, in the international exchange of , the arts, and education. performing and visual artists and Selected individuals, who are nominated encourages linkages between U.S. and by United States Information Service foreign cultural institutions. The Office posts, travel throughout the country also represents the Agency in the Fund meeting counterparts in their fields of for U.S. Artists at International Festivals interest. They also meet with Americans and Exhibitions. in their homes or other informal settings. The Office also manages the Agency’s The Office of Policy and Evaluation New York reception center; serves as the provides policy analysis, coordination, Agency’s liaison with the large network and evaluation of the activities and of public and private organizations programs of the Bureau of Educational involved in the international visitor and Cultural Affairs. The Office also program; and arranges programs in the analyzes U.S. Government-funded United States for United Nations fellows international exchanges and training and foreign government trainees. programs with the objective of promoting better coordination among The Office of Citizen Exchanges government agencies. The Office is provides funding to American nonprofit responsible for advising the Associate institutions for international exchange Director on conceptual approaches to and training programs which support the Bureau’s activities and on the agency goals and objectives. Nonprofit development and implementation of its institutions may submit proposals only in policies. It coordinates activities with the response to requests for proposals (RFP’s) Bureau to ensure consistency of published by the Office, and these approach; evaluates the success, proposals are judged among others in strengths, and weaknesses of programs; the competition. Programs usually and provides staff support to the Cultural involve professional, nonacademic Property Advisory Committee, which exchanges—often with study tours, advises the Director on U.S. efforts to workshops, and internships as key curb illicit trade in artifacts. components, and taking place in Under Executive Order 13055, the multiple phases overseas and in the Associate Director for Educational and United States. Emphasis is usually on Cultural Affairs chairs a senior-level nontechnical themes such as democracy- Interagency Working Group on United building, journalism, the role of States Government-Sponsored government, or conflict resolution. The International Exchanges and Training. Office also administers all high school The Bureau provides staff support for the exchange programs sponsored by USIA, working group, which is responsible for including major special initiatives in East ensuring that the U.S. Government’s Europe and the former Soviet Union, and international exchanges and training the Congress-Bundestag program with activities are consistent with U.S. foreign Germany. policy and avoid duplication of effort.

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Overseas Posts Employment For information concerning employment opportunities, Principally an overseas agency, USIA’s contact the Office of Human Resources, work is carried out by its foreign service Civil Service Division, United States officers and staff assigned to American Information Agency, Washington, DC missions abroad. Overseas posts engage 20547. Phone, 202–619–4659. For in political advocacy of American Voice of America and WORLDNET foreign policy objectives and conduct Television and Film Service employment cultural and educational exchanges and information, contact the Office of informational activities in support of Personnel, International Broadcasting those objectives. The Agency maintains Bureau, United States Information 192 posts in 141 countries. Agency, Washington, DC 20547. Phone, 202–619–3117. For Office of Cuba Sources of Information Broadcasting employment information, contact the Office of Personnel, Office of Administrative Regulations Inquiries Cuba Broadcasting, United States regarding administrative staff manuals Information Agency, Washington, DC and instructions to staff affecting 20547. Phone, 202–401–7114. members of the public that were issued, International Audiovisual Programs For adopted, or promulgated on or after July information concerning a certification 5, 1967, should be directed to the program under international agreement Directives, Management Staff, United to facilitate the export and import of States Information Agency, Washington, qualified visual and auditory materials of DC 20547. Phone, 202–619–5680. an educational, scientific, and cultural Contracts Contact the Office of character, contact the Chief Attestation Contracts, United States Information Officer of the United States, United Agency, Washington, DC 20547. Phone, States Information Agency, Washington, 202–205–5498. 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. Internet, http://www.usia.gov/.

UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AGENCY 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20523–0001 Phone, 202–712–0000

Director, U.S. International Development J. BRIAN ATWOOD, Acting Cooperation Agency Deputy Director (VACANCY)

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20523–0001 Phone, 202–712–0000. Internet, http://www.info.usaid.gov/.

Administrator J. BRIAN ATWOOD Deputy Administrator HARRIET C. BABBITT Counselor KELLY C. KAMMERER Chief of Staff RICHARD L. MCCALL, JR. Executive Secretary RYAN CONROY

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