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of the programs are still essentially the same. These hearings cite 

 arrangements for cooperation with the Public Health SerN-ic^, the 

 World Health Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organi- 

 zation ; and such cooperation still continues. 



OVERSEAS OrnCES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 



The Department of Defense (DOD) maintains four overseas offices 

 in developed nations, mainly for research and development liaison pur- 

 poses. Three of these offices also support and coordinate a small num- 

 ber of grants and contracts which are aw^arded to scientific research 

 institutions in Europe and the Far East. The Army has two small 

 groups in Frankfurt and Tokyo ; however, the Office of Naval Research 

 in London and the European Office of Aerospace Research in Brussels 

 each has a larger staff of approximately 60 persons.^^^ 



In 1966 the Department of Defense was supporting a substantial 

 amount of research in foreign countries. Computer readouts at that 

 time ^®* revealed that the total level of support was approximately $18 

 million, and that nearly one-third ($5,412,000) of this was for research 

 in the biological and medical sciences. There were 378 projects in this 

 field. The most recent figures (1969)^®^ indicate a drastic reduction in 

 DOD-suj)ported medical research in foreign nations. Army, Navy, and 

 Air Force projects combine to make a total of $1,445,300, some of which 

 include Special Foreign Currency Funds. Thus in a four-year i>eriod 

 (1966 to 1969) the overseas biomedical research grants and contracts 

 of DOD were reduced by a factor of between four and five. The 1969 

 country distribution of funds for medical research projects by the three 

 services is shown in Table 8 below : 



163 "The Participation of Federal Agencies in International Scientific Programs," op. cit., 

 page 128. 



"« Ibid., paire 1.30. 



'"^ Letter from A. E. Ha.vward, Acting Deputy Director for Research and Technology, 

 Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering to Charles S. Sheldon II, Chief, 

 Science Policy Research Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 

 .Tanuary 20, 1971. 



