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— Enlist the Foreign Service Institute to manage occasional seminars and 

 prepare reports on them; 



— Arrange briefings by selected members of the Policy Planning Staff; 



— Contract studies on subjects of continuing interest to the committees, 

 acting individually or jointly; 



— Construct a library of policy studies of enduring value for joint use by 

 the two committees; 



— Publish sets of invited papers with staff or CRS commentary; 



— Have CRS conduct an annual seminar series on foreign poUcy issues; 

 and 



— Make more use of the scientific attaches as policy information sources, 

 aside from home leave, through invited reports and special studies to meet 

 committee needs .'^^ 



Viewed as part of an incremental approach and not necessarily as 

 a substitute for a more comprehensive system of foreign policy plan- 

 ning, which of these suggestions has merit? 



Finally — by way of recapitulation — what are the salient questions 

 from the standpoint of harmonizing future U.S. purposes and goals 



with those of the other peoples of the world? In general terms, the 

 study sums them up as follows: 



Where in the U.S. Government is there an institution charged with responsi- 

 bility for surveying on a continuing basis the totality of trends and . . . conse- 

 quences for U.S. diplomacy that grow out of world technological change? Where 

 are these findings translated into requirements upon U.S. diplomacy? What 

 kinds of expertise are needed for such surveys and for the definition of the diplo- 

 matic requirements? How complete is the set of U.S. institutions needed to collect, 

 assess, analyze, and structure the information to build into a data base for survej'- 

 ing future technological trends and their consequences for U.S. diplomacy? 

 Where are innovative strategies to be sought, conceived, and studied? How does 

 the world system of basic science communities relate to U.S. diplomacy? What 

 major technological trends and needs of diplomatic consequence are already 

 evident and how are they interrelated? What congressional options are available 

 to strengthen the legislative role in this sphere? ^-^ 



Appendix — Letter of Resignation From Assistant Secretary Dixy Lee 



Ray to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger (June 19, 1975), and 



Letter of Comment, With Attachment, to the President (June 20^ 



1975) 



Department of State, 

 Oceans and International ENviRONMENTAii 



AND Scientific Affairs, 

 Washington, D.C., June 19, 1975. 

 Hon. Henry A. Kissinger, 

 Secretary of State. 



Dear Mr. Secretary: After five months as Assistant Secretary of State for 

 Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, I am hereby sub- 

 mitting my resignation. 



For some time I had hoped that my office and the Bureau I head would play a 

 significant role in the formulation of the Department's science policy and in the 

 provision of information upon which to base policy in those areas of technology 

 specifically assigned to the OES Bureau by Congress. 



Unfortunately, that desirable condition has not been fulfilled. Many of the 

 areas for which OES has statutory responsibility are, in fact, being pursued in 

 other bureaus and offices. 



I sincerely hope that the Department seriously re-examines its administrative 

 procedures with a view toward pormitting its Bureaus to function efficiently. 

 Sincerely, 



Dixy Lee Ray, 



- Assistant Secretary. 



323 Ibid., p. 1469. 



