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— Assuring that information accumulated by U.S. scientists 

 abroad flows widely to the U.S. science community; and 



— Improving the efficiency of use of scientific information from 

 translated books and reports, especially from the "difficult" 

 languages (e.g., Cliinese, Japanese, Hungarian). 



FACILITATING THE WORK OF SCIENTISTS 



In this category are included actions to help scientists from the 

 United States make contact w^ith appropriate foreign scientists, and 

 easing travel problems. They include : 



— Assisting U.S. scientists in international matters of scientific 

 organization, conferences, and the like; 



— Coordinating the policy aspects of the basic scientific con- 

 tacts of other U.S. agencies abroad ; and 



— Facilitating the international exchange of scientific personnel 

 and monitoring it to anticipate and alleviate such problems as 

 "brain drain." 



INCREASING "TECHNICAL LITERACY" IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE 



In this category' are included actions to provide informational 

 material to increase the visibility to State Department officials and 

 others of technical interactions with diplomacy. They include : 



— Preparing and updating educational inaterials needed in 

 training and retraining Foreign Service officers, the U.S. scientific 

 and technological communities, and others whose work involves 

 the interactions of science and technology with diplomacy; 



— Promoting technical sensitivity and perception in the Foreign 

 Service; and 



— Accjuainting the U.S. public with the importance of tech- 

 nical matters for U.S. national and diplomatic objectives. 



ADMINISTRATIVE CHORES 



In this category are included various detailed activities of a non- 

 policy nature. They include : 



— Recruiting, training, and retraining personnel for service as 

 science officers or technolog}^ officers in U.S. embassies; 



—Providing close support for U.S. science officers in U.S. 

 embassies ; 



— Maintaining facilitative contacts with science officers of 

 foreign governments in Washington; and 



— ^Assuring adequate U.S. participation in United Nations and 

 regional international organizational affairs ; 

 It would not be easy to identify which of these jobs could most 

 readily be dispensed with, but there seem to be quite a number of 

 them. They evolved as the office grew over the years, and certainly 

 they are not all of equal importance. The problem of allocating re- 

 sources among them is rendered the more difficult because in general 

 the urgent tasks received priority attention while the longer range 

 policy-oriented studies were performed on an "as time permits" basis. 

 It is possible that a sharper focus of the effort in the future might 

 enhance the net utility of the office with only minor cost in services. 



