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...Thai and Saigon governments and the White House, and a Brande's war-"researcher," from defending, before a Harvard audience, for the benefit of government cameras, the conduct of the Southeast Asian war. Those who disrupted the meeting acted on the view, which the presence of the USIA cameras in Sanders Theatre vindicated, that the meeting was to be used by the government for propaganda purposes in attempting to maintain an atmosphere here and abroad in which it can continue to prosecute the war. Those who took the action thought it essential to show students and others around the country...
This "Home, Home on the Delta" type predominates in USAID, but neither the Embassy nor USIA could survive without him. He is not bothered by contradictions between today's and tomorrow's official rationalizations for American actions, nor does he bother to construct claborate and doomed-to-fail personal justifications for his guilty participation, as does the liberal mentioned above, nor is he disturbed by such phenomena as the ubiquitous anonymous presence of CIA agents-"ghosts." When asked to justify the American presence in Laos, this cog is likely to respond with something like this: "Do you realize that before...
President Nixon's favorite Shakespeare is Frank-the aggressive TV executive who became head of the U.S. Information Agency in 1969. Last week blond, boyish Frank Shakespeare, 45, unminced some words about the occasionally strained relations between USIA and the State Department. "Secretaries of State," he said, William Roqers take note, "have for too long been lawyers trained to negotiate quietly and announce only the results. But the world has gone well beyond that. So I come out as an advocate of the U.S. Government, taking advantage of communications in its foreign policy." As for the Russians: "Very effective...
...retired USIA Foreign Service officer who knew Ambassador and Mrs. James Conant well in Bonn, I question the reference [March 16] to that charming and effective lady as his erstwhile "financée." Does that term reflect your reviewer's appraisal of her worth as an individual . . . or to the Ambassador? Or did your pencil slip...
Just what is the USIA's line of work? It is frankly an American propaganda agency, and accentuating the positive is its legitimate goal. The question is how much of the positive can be poured on without undermining the agency's own credibility. The Voice of America has always been most effective when it offered straight news, including U.S. criticism of the U.S. As Edward R. Murrow, most distinguished of USIA directors, once said: "You must tell the bad with the good. We cannot be effective in telling the American story abroad if we tell it only...