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Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific 

 Affairs has been created, headed by an Assistant Secretary, supported 

 by a substantial staff (larger than NSC's) in Washington and in a co- 

 ordinate relationship with 30 scientific attaches and deputies in 23 

 countries or missions. 



How well the Secretar^VSpecial Assistant will be able to orchestrate 

 this team remains to be seen. Another imponderable is the direction to 

 be selected and the receptivity to be achieved by the new Assistant 

 Secretary. 



The scientific and technological roles of other organizational ele- 

 ments of the Department, next to be discussed, also relate to the 

 policy role of the Secretary. Particular question is raised with respect 

 to the Bureau of International Organizations (10) and the Bureau of 

 Intelligence and Research (INR), as well as the Foreign Service 

 Institute. 



Relationships of all these elements not only to each other but also 

 to the policy groups of other departments with international missions 

 (such as the Departments of Treasury, Commerce, Agriculture, In- 

 terior, HEW, HUD, Transportation, Labor, and most of all Defense) 

 and agencies (chiefly CIA, NSF, NASA, the Council of Environmental 

 Quality, and the new Energy Agenc}^ have largely been established 

 but every new tension abroad is likely to heighten the tensions among 

 these agencies at home. In virtually every case, science and technology 

 are likely to be an important ingredient in the foreign policy issues 

 that are the substance of these interactions. 



Finally, the relationship of the foreign policy apparatus to the 

 committees of Congress, and particularly those with both diplomatic 

 and scientific/technological interests'needs to be explored. In the last 

 analysis, this relationship and the problems and opportunities it 

 implies for the congressional policymaking and oversight responsibili- 

 ties, may well turn out to be a major consideration under the heading 

 of Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy. 



