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CU Organization and Administration

Boxes 1-46

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, notes, background and briefing  papers, policy statements, country program plans, budgets, and related materials pertaining to the organization and administration of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (CU).  Some files concern the President's Task Force on International Education and reorganization plans, particularly the CU-USIA liaison in 1978.  Arranged in six series.
 

Series 1. General Program Policies, Procedures, and Plans.  Boxes 1-11.

Series 2. Country Program Plans.  Boxes 12-17.

Series 3. President's Task Force, 1965. Boxes 18-20.

Series 4. CU Activity Reports. Boxes 21-26.

Series 5. CU Reorganization 1978: CU-USIA Liaison.  Boxes 27-34.

Series 6. Budgets. Boxes 35-46.

Series 1.  General Program Policies, Procedures, and Plans (Boxes 1-11)
 

Files concern the establishment, early history, organization, administration, and reorganization of CU and include materials associated with general CU program policies, procedures, guidelines, plans, and CU's coordinating function.  Other materials pertain to CU reorganization plans of 1953 and 1962.  (See Series 5 of this group for CU-USIA liaison of 1978.)  Included also are minutes of the General Advisory Committee of the Division of Cultural Relations, 1940-1943; minutes of the Interagency Council, 1964-1968; and briefing papers of the Council on International Educational and Cultural Affairs.  Other files concern the U.S. Information Agency, including a history by Murray G. Lawson.
 

Box 1

 1. ORG 1. General Policy, Plans, Coordination.
 2. ORG 2-1. Reporting Requirements.
 3. ORG 8. International Information Administration, IIA, 1952-1953.
 4. ORG 8. General Information and Problems of Department's IES, 1954.
 5. ORG 8. IES. Basic Principles in Administration of the Program, 1954.
 6. ORG 8. Coordination with USIA. State-USIA Task Force, 1955-1956 (1 of 2).
 7. ORG 8. Coordination with USIA. State-USIA Task Force, 1955-1956 (2 of 2).
 8. ORG 8. Department-USIA Responsibilities, 1955-1956.
 9. ORG 8. Public Affairs Area, 1956.
 10. ORG 8. CU, 1958.
 11. ORG 8. Responsibilities of Program Reporting and Program Evaluation Staffs, 1958.
 12. ORG 8. Flemming Report-Organization of Cultural and Informational Program, 1959.
 13. ORG 8. CU Bureau Established, 1960.
 14. ORG 8. CU, 1961.
 15. ORG 8. CU Assistant Secretary, 1961.
 16. ORG 8. Bureau Organization, 1963.
 17. ORG 8. Establishment . . . "CU Retreat," May 1963.
 18. ORG 8. Changes in Organizational Responsibilities, 1964.
 19. ORG 8. FAIME Study, 1965.
 20. ORG 8. Briefing Papers for Dr. Frankel, 1965.
 21. ORG 8. Study of Organization of the Bureau, 1966.
 22. ORG 8. Center for Educational Cooperation. Transfer of Programs to . . . , 1966.
 23. ORG 8. Education Officers, 1966.
 24. ORG 8. Function and Programs of CU, 1967.
 25. ORG 8. CU, 1971-1974.
 26. ORG 8. PAO Manual, 1972.
 27. ORG 8. Management Studies of CU, 1975, 1976.
 28. ORG 8. Memorandum for Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1977.
 29. ORG 8. CU Briefing Book, 1978.
 30. ORG 8. Establishment, Functions, Reorganization.
 31. ORG 8. All About CU.
 32. ORG 8. CU Staff (1 of 2).
 33. ORG 8. CU Staff (2 of 2).
 34. ORG 9. Training-Orientation.
 35. ORG 10. Report on Position Management Survey of CU, 1970.
 36. Progress Report re On-Site Work Completed on Contract No. SCC-41327, July 27, 1971.
 37. ORG 11. Inspections, 1960.
 38. ORG 11. CU Inspection Report, 1974.
 39. ORG 13. Cultural Affairs Officers.

Box 2

 1. Summary of CU History, 1938-1955.
 2. Chronology of History of CU, 1938-1966.
 3. Landmark Events in the History of CU, 1938-1973.
 4. General Information-CU.
 5. CU Progress Report, 1940.
 6. The General Advisory Committee, 1940, Organizational Status.  (See also Group IX, Series 1, Box 225.)
 7. Minutes. General Advisory Committee of the Division of Cultural Relations of the Department of State, Apr 1940 - Feb 1941.
 8. Minutes. General Advisory Committee of the Division of Cultural Relations of the Department of State, May 1941 - Nov 1941.
 9. Minutes. General Advisory Committee of the Division of Cultural Relations of the Department of State, Feb 1942.
 10. Minutes. General Advisory Committee of the Division of Cultural Relations of the Department of State, June 1942.
 11. Minutes. General Advisory Committee of the Division of Cultural Relations of the Department of State, Feb 1943, June 1943.
 12. U.S. Government Cultural Relations to 1946.
 13. Cultural Affairs, 1960-1970.
 14. Minutes. Interagency Council, First - Sixth Meetings, 1964-1965. (See also Group VI, Series 3, Box 184; Group VIII, Series 1:5, Box 217; Group X, Series 6:1, Boxes 245-246; Group XVII, Series 1:1, Box 324.)
 15. Minutes. Interagency Council, Seventh - Tenth Meetings, 1965-1966.
 16. Minutes. Interagency Council, Eleventh - Thirteenth Meetings, 1966-1967.
 17. Minutes. Interagency Council, Fourteenth - Sixteenth Meetings, 1967-1968.
 18. Basic Data on CU.
 19. CU Files-Basic Material on CU in Various CU Offices, 1973.
 20. Notes on Structure of CU (1 of 2).
 21. Notes on Structure of CU (2 of 2).
 22. "History of the Government's Educational Exchange and Cultural Relations Program," 1938-1954.
 23. Rosemary O'Neal. "A Brief History of Department of State Involvement in International Exchange."
 24. F. J. Colligan. "Twenty Years After: Two Decades of Government-Sponsored Cultural Relations, 1938-1958."
 25. "The Program of the Department in Cultural Relations."
 26. Picture of General Grant Building, Headquarters of Cultural Relations Program, 1942-1947.
 27. Headquarters of Educational and Cultural Exchange, CU, 1938 to Present.
 28. Leland, W. G., "International Intellectual Relations," 1943 and 1944.
 29. Helen R. Pickney, "The Division of Cultural Cooperation," 1945.
 30. F. J. Colligan, "The Government's Cultural Interchange," 1958.
 31. Codes for Educational and Cultural Exchange.
 32. The CU Program Concept, 1973.
 33. CU Open Forum Panel (Establishment of, 1970).
 34. CU Projects for Summer Interns.
 35. Value to FSOs of Working in CU.
 36. PER 1. Personnel-Policy.
 37. PER 9. Personnel Training.
 38. PER 10. Performance Evaluation.
 39. Secretarial Task Force Report-Utilization of Secretaries in the State Department.
 40. PER 16. Security.
 41. Personal Privacy Act, 1974.

Box 3

 1. Documents Regarding Organization and Reorganization of CU Program, 1939-1974.
 2. International Educational Exchange Manual, 1957.
 3. Basic ICA Documents.
 4. Interagency Cooperation: ICA Programming (1 of 2).
 5. Interagency Cooperation: ICA Programming (2 of 2).
 6. Survey of Organization and Administration of the International Exchange of Persons Programs, 1950.
 7. Departmental Orientation Book (1 of 2).
 8. Departmental Orientation Book (2 of 2).
 9. List of Basic CU Operating Documents, 1953-1955.
 10. Meeting on Educational and Cultural Exchange, 1966.
 11. Council on International Educational and Cultural Affairs-Briefing Papers.  (See also Group VIII, Series 1:5, Box 216; Group XVII, Series 1:1, Box 323.)
 12. Briefing Papers. Council on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1967.
 13. Council on International Educational and Cultural Affairs-Committees and Working Groups.
 14. Operation Material-CU Officers.
 15. "CU Briefing Book, Jan 1978."
 16. EDX 1. Frankel Letter to Babbidge: "CU's Emerging Design," 1967.
 17. CR 15.
 18. Overseas Distribution of Government Documents.
 19. Cultural Relations Program of the Department of State, 1938-1978.
 20. CU's Coordinating Function.
 21. Proposal for Coordination of the Exchange of Persons and Other Programs.
 22. "Legal Basis and Evolution of USICA's Role in Exchange of Persons Programs."
 23. CU-Office of Policy and Plans (CU/OPP) Basic Information.
 24. EDX 1. Educational and Cultural Exchange, General.
 25. EDX 1. Country Analysis and Strategy Paper, CASP, 1968.
 26. EDX 1. IRG/ARA (CASP).
 27. Report on the 64 Recommendations Made by the ICY Government Committee on Culture and Intellectual Exchange.
 28. Public Advisory Bodies-Appointment Authority and Selected Procedures.
 29. C. 1. General. Council on International Educational and Cultural Affairs-Purpose and Structure.
 30. EDX 1. International and Cultural Exchange Programs.  Inspection Corps' Post Check.
 31. CU Inspection-Oct - Dec 1973.
 32. CU Interest in Development of a Worldwide Packet-Data Communication and Information Service System.

Box 4

 1. VIP Visits-Instructions for Coordination of VIP Visits-1975.
 2. CU Procedures in Handling of USIA Country Plan Proposals.
 3. CU's Cultural Relations Country Groupings-Established for Guidance in Allocation of CU Resources.
 4. CU Evaluation Guidelines for USIS Post Annual Assessments (USIA Circular CM-139, 1974).
 5. Statutory Authority Under Which CU Operated.
 6. Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs-Organization of.
 7. CU Concept Papers.
 8. CU Concept Papers, 1976.
 9. Commissions.
 10. Transcripts of Proceedings-Department of State-Cultural Affairs.
 11. Executive Orders-Council.
 12. Hearings-House of Representatives.
 13. Hearings-House-Battle's Testimony Before House Subcommittee-Exchange Visitor (INS), 1965.
 14. Hearings-House-Green Subcommittee.
 15. Hearings-Senate.
 16. EDX 1. General Policy, Plans, Coordination.
 17. CU Policy Statement-Draft.
 18. CU Policy Papers, 1970s.
 19. CU Policy (1 of 3).
 20. CU Policy (2 of 3).
 21. CU Policy (3 of 3).
 22. Policy-General (1 of 2).
 23. Policy-General (2 of 2).
 24. Policy Guidelines of Other Agencies.
 25. Policy (Quasi): "Application of Freedom of Information Act to CU Grantee Records."
 26. Policy Planning Council-General.
 27. Policy Planning Council-National Policy Papers.
 28. CU Policy Statements-Procedures in Drafting.
 29. Policy Statements (Pending).
 30. Binational Commissions (Policy Statements on).

Box 5

 1. Policy Statements-Proposed.
 2. Policy Statement #1-Support of International Nongovernmental Education, Science, and Technology Meeting.
 3. Policy Statement #2-Facilitating Admission to U.S. of Foreign Nationals to Attend Nongovernmental Conferences Held in U.S.
 4. Policy Statement #3-Ineligibility of Certain Persons to Receive CU Grants.
 5. Policy Statement #4-Acceptance of Funds, Property, and Services Under Fulbright-Hays Act.
 6. Policy Statement #5-English Language Requirements for Foreign Grantees.
 7. Policy Statement #6-Exchange of Persons in the Field of Religion.
 8. Policy Statement #7-Grants to Military Personnel.
 9. Policy Statement #11-Support to Archaeological Projects.
 10. Policy Statement #12-National Policy Statement on International Book and Library Activities.
 11. Policy Statement. Protest Activities of U.S. Government-Sponsored Foreign Students.
 12. Policy (Science Guidelines)-International Scientific Exchange Programs.
 13. Policy Statements Rejected as Statements-Per se-Use of International Visitor Grants as Prizes.
 14. Policy Statements Rejected as Statements-Per se-Competition Between American Specialists and BFS Senior Scholars Program.
 15. Relationships Between Binational and Multinational Programs (State Policy on).
 16. Mass Media Material (Policy Statement on).
 17. Policy Statements-Other Rejects.
 18. Second Grant Policy Statement.
 19. Confirmation Copies of Policy Statements.
 20. Policy Statements.
 21. Policy Guidelines.
 22. EDX 1. Policy, Plan, Coordination.
 23. EDX 1. Policy re Grants to Religious Workers or Groups, 1949-1962.
 24. EDX 1. Policy. Participation of Smaller American Institutions, 1954.
 25. EDX 1. General Policy, Plans, Coordination. Morrill: Proposal for Coordination with ICA, 1956.
 26. EDX 1. General Policy. Proposal for IES Overseas Unit, 1957.
 27. EDX 1. Policy. Blueprint for Action, 1960s.
 28. EDX 1. Policy. Policies for the 1960s (Slater).
 29. EDX 1. General Policy-Suggestions for Program Improvement, 1962-1963.
 30. EDX 1. Policy. CU Policy Statements, 1964 (1 of 2)
 31. EDX 1. Policy. CU Policy Statements, 1964 (2 of 2).

Box 6

 1. EDX 1. General Policy. Press Guidance, 1969-1970.
 2. EDX 1. Policy. Richardson Suggestion for Early Initiative in Cultural Relations, 1973.
 3. EDX 1. Policy. CU's Mission, 1969-1974.
 4. EDX 1. Policy. CU Open Forum Panel, 1970.
 5. EDX 1. General Policy . . . 1971 Guidelines.
 6. EDX 1. Policy. CU Program Concept, 1973-1974.
 7. EDX 1. Policy. Policy Guidance for FY1974-1976.
 8. EDX 1. Planning. Francis Young's Paper on "Role of the Scholar in Planning Exchange Programs," 1955.
 9. EDX 1. Plans. Plans for ARA, 1970-1971.
 10. EDX 1. Planning. International Cultural Planning, 1971.
 11. Coordination, 1956-1957.
 12. EDX 1. Coordination, 1960-1963.
 13. EDX 1. Coordination, 1964.
 14. EDX 1. Coordination, 1965-1968.
 15. EDX 1. Coordination, 1969-1977.
 16. EDX 1. Coordination. 1970 CU Terminal Paper on Coordination.
 17. EDX 1. Coordination. Reports, Directives and Proposals re Coordination or Consolidation of International Education and Cultural Programs.
 18. EDX 1. Coordination. "Shaping the Federal Role in Global Education." A paper presented by Sven Groenning . . . .
 19. Planning: Long-Range Planning Teams-General.
 20. Planning: Long-Range Planning Teams (Hopkins papers).
 21. Planning-Programming-Budget Systems (PPBS) General.
 22. Planning, Long-Range (1 of 2).
 23. Planning, Long-Range (2 of 2).
 24. Radio-Television Monitoring Service.
 25. Chronological File, Herman T. Skofield, July 1970 - June 1971.
 26. Chronological Log-Western Europe. Herman T. Skofield, July 1971 - June 1972.
 27. Chronological File, Tony Cook, 1966 (1 of 2).
 28. Chronological File, Tony Cook, 1966 (2 of 2).

Box 7

 1. Chronological File, Tony Cook, Jan - June 1967 (1 of 2).
 2. Chronological File, Tony Cook, Jan - June 1967 (2 of 2).
 3. Chronological File, Tony Cook, July - Dec 1967 (1 of 2).
 4. Chronological File, Tony Cook, July - Dec 1967 (2 of 2).
 5. American Attendance at International Nongovernmental Conferences: A Preliminary Report-G. Anderson (NGOs) (1 of 2).
 6. American Attendance at International Nongovernmental Conferences: A Preliminary Report-G. Anderson (NGOs) (2 of 2).
 7. Masters.
 8. World List.
 9. Travel Policy.
 10. Travel Tax.
 11. Travel Tax-Support for Amendments.
 12. 5% Transportation Tax.
 13. NGO Testimony and Statements on Travel Tax.
 14. Travel Tax-Interagency Meetings.
 15. Travel Tax Proposals-Meeting, 1968.
 16. Travel: Meeting on Proposed Public Travel Restrictions, 1968.
 17. Restrictions on Travel Abroad-Newspaper Clippings (1 of 2).

Box 8

 1. Restrictions on Travel Abroad-Newspaper Clippings (2 of 2).
 2. Travel-Staff.
 3. EDX 28-5. Air Transportation (Free).
 4. EDX 28-5. CAB-Questions and Recommendations.
 5. CAB-Various Specific Cases.
 6. EDX 28-5. CAB-Legislation, Policy Statements, Guidelines, and "Grandfather" Project.
 7. EDX 28-5. CAB-Backup Papers.
 8. Freedom of Travel (1 of 2).
 9. Freedom of Travel (2 of 2).
 10. ORG 8. Reorganization Plan #8, 1953.
 11. ORG 8. Reorganization, 1962.
 12. Reorganization, 1962.
 13. Reorganization, 1966 (1 of 2).
 14. Reorganization, 1966 (2 of 2).
 15. Reorganization-General (1 of 2).
 16. Reorganization-General (2 of 2).
 17. Reorganization: Clayton Miller Study, 1964.
 18. Reorganization: Foreign Service Inspection, 1960.
 19. Transition Papers, 1968.
 20. ORG 8. Transition Papers, 1968.
 21. ORG 8. Transition Papers, 1976-1977.

Box 9

 1. ORG 8. Papers for Secretary-Designate Kissinger, 1973.
 2. Briefings of Assistant Secretary Lucius Battle.
 3. PRS-General.
 4. PRS-Budget.
 5. PRS-Staff Meetings.
 6. PRS-Functions (1 of 2).
 7. PRS-Functions (2 of 2).
 8. CU's Contribution to National Policy Papers.
 9. Briefing Material Furnished to Undersecretary of State Katzenbach.
 10. Press Releases in CU Program.
 11. CU Retired Files (Forms DS 693).
 12. EDX 1. Educational and Cultural Exchange. History Background Information.
 13. "Twenty Years of United States Government Programs in Cultural Relations" (IIE Publication, 1959).
 14. James A. Davis-Summary of Exchange Program, 1946-1970.
 15. AID, 1950-1966, 1970.
 16. INF 1. PAO (Public Affairs Officer) Handbook.
 17. United States Information Agency.
 18. History of USIA, 1933-1945, by Murray G. Lawson (1 of 2).
 19. History of USIA, 1933-1945, by Murray G. Lawson (2 of 2).
 20. INF 2. USIA and TV in the 1970s-Mark Lewis, 1969.
 21. INF 2. Recommendations of Republican National Committee on U.S. Information Program, 1968.
 22. INF 2. Survey of U.S. Information Service Operations-Western Europe, 1957.
 23. INF 2. "Do We Make Ourselves Clear?"-Quotes on Overseas Information Program.
 24. INF 2. Reports: Senate Report 93-168 on USIA Appropriations Authorization Act of 1973.
 25. INF 2. USIA-Histories of-Articles About.
 26. INF 2. The Objective of USIA.
 27. USICA FY 1980 Post Project Proposals (1 of 3).
 28. USICA FY 1980 Post Project Proposals (2 of 3).
 29. USICA FY 1980 Post Project Proposals (3 of 3).
 30. USICA-Programs, Products and Services, Jan 1982.
 31. USICA-Management Information Summary, Feb-June 1982.
 32. USICA-Management Information Summary, July-Sep 1982.
 33. Report of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, 1983.
 34. Henderson, John W., The United States Information Agency.
 35. CU-USIA Agreement on USIA Officer Assignment, Consultation, and Performance.
 36. USIA-Thematic Programs.

Box 10

 1. ICA-Thematic Programs (1 of 5).
 2. ICA-Thematic Programs (2 of 5).
 3. ICA-Thematic Programs (3 of 5).
 4. ICA-Thematic Programs (4 of 5).
 5. ICA-Thematic Programs (5 of 5).
 6. USIA-Management Information System MIS/RAS.
 7. INF 7. Informational Media Guaranty Program.
 8. INF 9. Research and Analysis.
 9. IES, 1954-1955.
 10. CU Awards.
 11. Program Issues and Papers.
 12. Program Planning-General.
 13. Program Planning, 1965.
 14. Batson-Emergency Exchange Program.
 15. CU Research and Evaluation Program.
 16. CU Programs, 1974-1979.
 17. CU Seminars, General.
 18. Program Reporting.
 19. Multilateral Organizations and Programs, 1966.
 20. Project Aristotle.
 21. Projects and Reports-General (1 of 2).
 22. Projects and Reports-General (2 of 2).
 23. Task Force on Facilitative Assistance.

Box 11

 1. Facilitative Assistance.
 2. Contractual Agreements.
 3. Cost-sharing Agreements.
 4. PC #2160. D. B. Cook-Cultural Colloquy.
 5. Follow-up.
 6. Foreign Area and Language Studies.
 7. Inter-American Cultural Convention, 1936 and 1954.
 8. EDU. International Educational Act.
 9. Nongovernmental International Meetings-Survey Report.
 10. NGO International Meeting.
 11. Private Funds Supporting International Educational and Cultural Exchange.
 12. Selective Service.
 13. Slater Report-General Information.
 14. Grant Categories.
 15. Grant Agreements.
 16. Sample Grant Agreement.
 17. Arrival List-International Visitors.
 18. Grantee Report Forms and Reports.
 19. Grantees in the Arts.
 20. Ineligibility.
 21. Rights and Responsibilities of Grantees (State Policy on).
 22. Grantee Time Limitation (Short-Term Grantees).
 23. Extensions and Renewals of Grants.
 24. Grantee Standardization (Fields of Specialization).
 25. Exhibits and Performances in U.S.-Foreign Grantees.
 26. SCI-Report on International Scientific and Technological Activities, 1961.
 27. SCI 13. Science: Research Laboratories. Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
 28. SCI 27. Geophysics.
 29. Committee on Emergency Exchange Program Policies.
 30. Originals of All Charts and Papers on Tables.
 31. PPB-Summary Documents.
 32. Memos-Routed Material.