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produced in the Congressional Record, February 19, 1975, at the 

 request of Senator llibicoff , concludes as follows : 



This is a quite different Policy Planning Staff from the days of George Kennan. 

 Like everything else now, it is much bigger — around thirty members as compared 

 ^ith Kennan's eight or ten — and dealing with many more things. 



It has experts on air power (Lt. Col. B. Conn Anderson, Jr., West Point, age 41, 

 professor at the Air Force Academy and the National War College) ; advisors on 

 science (Harry C. Blaney, age 36, Allegheny College, London School of Economics, 

 former assistant to Pat Moynihan in the White House); information officers 

 (Douglas Pike, age 50, California, former P.R. officer in Vietnam). 



You name it and Policy Planning now has it, and it's so large that Mr. Kis- 

 singer, who hates big meetings, seldom meets with it. But he has changed in the 

 last few months. He now has breakfast at the State Department at 7:30 in the 

 morning, and has a staff meeting once or twice a week, when he's around, with his 

 Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries, and Winston Lord, his Policy Plan- 

 ning Director. 



The talent has been here at State for more than a generation, unused and 

 uninspired. Mr. Kissinger has been very tough on it, hut he has nourished it and 

 brought it alive again, and in the end, this may be one of his most important 

 achievements."' 



Relations Between OES and Policy Planning Stajff 



The new Assistant Secretary heading the Bureau of Oceans and 

 International Environmental and Scientific Affairs moved into an 

 office in the Department of State in February 1975 while this study 

 was in preparation. She was altogether too recently in the assignment 

 to have plotted a course or made the many administrative decisions 

 as to staff, program emphasis, appropriate role for the scientific 

 attache system, and the like. It was evident from a discussion with 

 her that she expected to play a strong positive role in shaping the new 

 bureau and melding together its previously separate elements like 

 oceans and fisheries, population, and environment with atomic energy 

 (nonmilitary aspects) and science and technology. She is confident of a 

 participatory share in departmental policymaking, along with the 

 other Assistant Secretaries heading the geographic and functional 

 bureaus, as first-line advisers to the Secretary. Her jurisdiction would 

 be science and technology and related matters.'*' 



It mil be important for the effectiveness of planning of the De- 

 partment's scientific and technological affairs that the new Bureau 

 establish a good working relationship with the Policy Planning Staff, 

 and that both units not become enmeshed in operational details and 

 short-term problems. With particular reference to the Planning Staff, 

 much of the criticim over the years has addressed the dilemma pre- 

 sented by competitive uses of the staff to plan ahead and to deal with 

 immediate crises. Conceived as a small group of highlv qualified 

 foreign policy anal^^sts to do unstructured thinking ahea5, the staff 

 also constituted an mvaluable and rare resource to be tapped in current 

 emergencies. Since emergencies were not postponable, and usually 

 landed on the President's desk, the request for diversion of staff 

 attention from longer range to immediate problem was likely to be 

 irresistible. As a general proposition, operational problems take 

 precedence over planning. 



'«« James Reston, "The Policy Planners," New York Timet, Febraary 19, 1975. p. 35. (Reprinted in U.S. 

 Congress, Se nate. Congrmi on alBecord. 9 4th Cong., 1st ses s-j 1975^ 121. p. 2 126. (Daily edl tlonl) 

 1*1 Conversation with Dr. Dixy Lee Kay, * ebrua 



