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which policy positions and conference delegations affecting international or- 

 ganizations are coordinated. It reviews and defends the budgets of international 

 organizations before the Congress. But these powers tend to be dissipated because 

 they are not exercised within a framework of priorities and general strategy. 10 

 presently lacks a staff capability for program analysis and policy planning. No 

 one in the Bureau is devoting sufficient analysis to the larger potentials and 

 problems of international organizations, particularly in the economic, social, and 

 scientific areas, (p. 52) 



In sum, the Bureau of International Organization Affairs is not suitably staffed 

 or positioned to lend vigorous thrust and coordination to our relationski'ps with 

 international organizations. It can and shotild play a vital role in the Department. 

 Its experience is increasingly relevant to the issues arising in the world eommunity.. 

 (p. 52) (Italics in original.) 



A separate unit in 10 was proposed to coordinate the substantive 

 and budgetary aspects of the Bureau's function: 



We therefore propose the development of a high-level evaluation and planning; 

 unit in 10, devoted to the evaluation of the effectiveness of international institu- 

 tions and their programs, to the development of specific initiatives for strengthen- 

 ing these institutions, and to enhancing U.S. participation in them. This would 

 include an evaluation of any need for creation or elimination of organizations in 

 particular problem areas, as well as the formulation of major reforms in existing; 

 institutions and their mandates. It would also involve encouraging international 

 organizations themselves to perform much of this program evaluation, (pp. 

 85-86) 



[In addition, the panel urged] that officials of the appropriate domestic agencies 

 be invited to accompany the Assistant Secretary for International Organization 

 Affairs when he testifies before Congressional appropriation subcommittees con- 

 cerning the specialized agencies, (p. 100) 



[The panel attached particular importance to three 10 functions, which were:] 



(1) determining the level of U.S. contributions to international organizations; 



(2) deciding on the international conferences and programs in which the U.S. 

 should participate; and (3) undertaking program review and evaluation of inter- 

 national organization activities, (p. 98) 



STRENGTHENING THE PRESIDENTIAL POLICY SYSTEM IN NONMILITARY 



AREAS 



Sliortly after the UNA Panel report was issued, the President 

 put into effect one of the three options offered in the report: the 

 combinina; of the office of Secretary of vState with that of National 

 Security Assistant to the President. The report also noted, in passing, 

 that the "senior NSC staff has not given sustained attention to 

 economic, monetary, commercial, or technological affairs and their 

 interaction with national security," a factor among others leading to 

 the creation of a separate White House Council on International 

 Economic Policy, (p. 40) Accordingly, "a clear pattern of foreign 

 policy administration has not emerged." It should also be recognized 

 that the strengthening of the NSC staff competence in science and 

 technology would weaken the relative strength of the Department of 

 State in this area, unless, of course, the science and technology per- 

 sonnel in the Policy Planning Staff and OES were correspondingly 

 strengthened. 



A STRONGER POLICY PLANNING MECHANISM IN THE DEPARTMENT 



OF STATE 



In practice, said the UNA Panel, State Department officials tend 

 to "give priority" to "overseas embassies and missions and the foreign 

 governments with which they deal." The emphasis is on "political" 

 and "diplomatic" problems. Policy analyses tend to be "heavily 



