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"... the Science Foundation and its personnel can make a valuable 

 contribution to the existing science attache program." It recom- 

 mended that : 



. . . NSF staff members might function as staff members of individual em- 

 bassies [because] such a program, properly implemented, would further the 

 progress of American science, and also contribute to the technical knowledge and 

 reasoned judgments necessary to an increasing proportion of foreign policy 

 decisions. '5* 



The Foundation, on the other hand, apparently seeks establish- 

 ment of regional NSF science attache offices, similar to the model of 

 the London branch of the Office of Naval Research. *^^ 



TERMINATION OF SPECIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL 



SCIENCE ACTIVITIES 



In 1961 the Foundation created a Special Advisory Committee on 

 International Science Activities, composed of industrial and academic 

 scientists, to assist the agency in governing and developing inter- 

 national science programs. ^^^ Apparently this Committee lapsed in 

 1965'^^ and it is not listed among the Foundation's Advisory Com- 

 mittees in the Agency's 1971 Annual Report. ^^^ 



Programs Administered by the 0_ffice of International Programs 



The Office of International Programs (OIP) administers programs 

 budgeted under "International Cooperative Scientific Activities." 

 They include: bilateral agreements, some programs for the sup- 

 port of travel to international scientific meetings, the special for- 

 eign currency program, and support for the International Institute 

 for Applied Systems Analysis, a new East- West research center in 

 Vienna. All of these programs involve the foreign travel of non- 

 governmental scientific personnel. For a graphic illustration of OIP 

 activities, see figure 2. 



1" U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, Authorizing Appropriations ,to the 

 National Science Foundation: Report No. 91-991, 91st Cong., 2d sess., April 9, 1970, p. 60. 

 1" 1970 NSF Authorization, Hearings, Vol. II, op. cit., p. 571. 

 I" U.S., National Science Foundation, Annual Report, FY 1971, 1972, p. 164. 

 >M Not listed in NSF Annual Report, FY 1965., op. cit. 

 i«« NSF, Annual Report FY 1971, op. cit., Appendix A. 



