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...official outlet for the United States Information Agency (USIA), Voice of America, with 2,303 employees and an annual budget of $55 million, operates under statutory authority. Its stated mission is to report on the U.S. and American foreign policy and to "combat Communism." In practice, it has wobbled between its dual roles as Government propagandist and conveyor of straight news. James Keogh, the former executive editor of TIME who became USIA director in 1973, discarded the old Cold War attitudes of his hard line predecessor, Frank Shakespeare. Under Keogh, a skilled, seasoned newsman, VGA began finally to accept detente...
...program department planned a series often-minute excerpts and summaries from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, the nightmare account of Soviet repression, to counteract Moscow's propaganda against the book. USIA ordered the project canceled...
...Voice correspondent, Lawrence Freund, preparing a story on the trial of a group of Croatians accused of separatism, noted that Yugoslav security was being stepped up around President Tito's residence in Belgrade. USIA killed the story as "too sensitive" because it fostered the impression of political instability. Instead, VGA broadcast a toned-down story from the wire services...
...Hugh Morrow, for 15 years Rockefeller's speechwriter and press spokesman, will be the press secretary for the Vice President. James M. Cannon, a onetime political reporter who helped lobby revenue sharing through Congress, is expected to become Rockefeller's liaison with Congress. Joseph Persico, a former USIA staffer, will be the Veep's chief speechwriter, though he admits to experiencing "blank-page terror" when he starts composing a speech. "I now have trouble writing a business letter without making it sound like Caesar haranguing the Etruscans," he says. Ann Whitman, who was once President Eisenhower...
...Among them: John Ehrlichman, John Dean, L. Patrick Gray, Richard Kleindienst, Charles Colson, G. Gordon Liddy, Gordon Strachan, general counsel to the USIA until he resigned under pressure, and Donald Segretti, a former Treasury Department counsel. Richard Nixon, also a lawyer, lost his personal attorney, Herbert Kalmbach, in last week's developments; Kalmbach immediately hired a lawyer...