— Maintaining a continuity of foreign policy expertise, an 

 extended institutional memor}^ and an assistance cadre for 

 major studies for "international" committees concerned with 

 S. & T, questions, S. & T. committees concerned with foreign 

 policy questions, and committees monitoring major technological 

 missions with significant international implications/ 

 The interest of the Congress is inevitably — and more and more 

 demonstrably — drawn to the importance of technology in its influence 

 on the U.S. world posture, both directly through the diplomatic 

 process and indirectly through the contributions of technology to U.S. 

 economic health and vitality. Other congressional interests include 

 the development of specific diplomatic initiatives employing tech- 

 nology for national and international benefit; and the evolution of 

 sound policies for the sharing of U.S. technology abroad and for the 

 mutually beneficial exchange of technology with other countries. 



From these preoccupations, it would seem to follow that the Con- 

 gress has a strong justification for considered action to supply 

 (a) the best possible mechanism for long-range diplomatic planning 

 in the Executive Office of the President; (b) means to strengthen orga- 

 nizational resources of the Department of State at home and abroad 

 relative to science and technology; (c) positive guidance to the 

 Department of State in the use of nongovernmental intellectual 

 resources and institutions bearing on the relationship of diplomacy 

 with science and technology; and (d) means to strengthen the 

 resources supporting the Congress itself in making its own independent 

 decisions on all these matters. 



7 Ibid., p. 1467. 



