948 



the cooperation between the scientists of the two countries and ta« 

 provide additional opportunities to exchange ideas, information, 

 skills, and techniques to collaborate on problems of mutual interest, 

 to work together in special environments, jand to utilize special 

 facilities." 2« 



The duration of the agreement is five years. Executive agencies 

 are the NSF in the United States, and the National Research Council 

 of Brazil. It was proposed that the United States allocate $300,000 

 for fiscal year 1973 program operations.^^ 



NSF is working out details and procedures for similar agreements 

 with Argentina and Mexico.^*^ It was estimated that $300,000 would 

 be required for 1973 activities for each program.^** 



United States-Iran Program jor Scientific Cooperation. — A U.S. -Iran 

 Program for Scientific Cooperation was agreed upon in an exchange 

 of letters signed at Tehran on May 23 and 27, 1968. The formal 

 agreement envisioned general scientific cooperation and exchanges 

 of personnel and information especially in geology, nutrition, and 

 disease. The Department of State delegated lead agency responsibility 

 for the United States to the Smithsonian Institution. The Iranian 

 Ministry of Science and Higher Education was named the counter- 

 part executive agency. Under terms of the Agreement each side would 

 bear the costs of its own participants. The duration of the original 

 agreement was for three years. According to a later State Department 

 evaluation of the program, "unfortunately funds have not been 

 available even to stimulate investigation . . . ."^" 



In 1972 the National Science Foundation announced that it "agreed 

 to accept Executive Agency responsibiHty for a renewed bilateral 

 cooperative science program between the United States and the 

 Government of Iran. The Foundation plans to support American 

 scientific participation in about six binational seminars, twelve 

 exchange visits of U.S. and Iranian scientists and two cooperative 

 research projects" .^*^ 



OTHER PROGRAMS ADMINISTERED BY THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL 



PROGRAMS 



The Office of International Programs administers three other 

 activities which send American nongovernmental scientists abroad. 

 These, which will be described next, are: Planning and Developing 

 International Science Programs, the International Institute for 

 Applied Systems Analysis, and the Special Foreign Currency Pro- 

 gram. 



U.S. Participation in Planning and Developing International Science 

 Programs. — The only exphcit travel support activity of the Office of 

 International Programs is a modest program in support of U.S. par- 

 ticipation in the planning, development, organization, and coordina- 

 tion of international scientific programs and meetings. Currently 

 called the "Scientific Organization and Resources Program," it 



^ "United States and Brazil Sign Agreement on Scientific Cooperation," LcpaTtmtnt of State Bulletin- 

 (December 27, 1971), p. 747. 



^- Taken from data supplied to FC, ICST, Subcommittee on Bilateral Relations, December 4, 1971, con- 

 sisting of a draft catalogue of U.S. bilateral scientific agreements. 



2« NSF, Justification of EHimates of Appropriations, FY 197S, op. cit., p. H-2. 



2" Material supplied to IC, FCST, December 4, 1971, by State Department, op. cit. 



2<» "U.S. Scientific and Technological Agreements with Other Countries," op. cit. 



2<« NSF, Justification of Estimates of Appropriations, FY 1973, op. cit., p. H-60. 



