DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, AND COM- 3 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, AND COMMERCE, JOHN J. ROONEY, New York, Chairman ROBERT L. F. SIKES, Florida JOHN J. FLYNT, Georgia CHARLES S. JOELSON, New Jersey FRANK T. BOW, Ohio GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB, California JAY B. HOWE, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee 1 Temporarily assigned. American Battle Monuments Commission Federal Maritime Commission Foreign Claims Settlement Commission Small Business Administration Special Foreign Currency Authorization Special Representative for Trade Negotiations U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency U.S. Tariff Commission 47-555 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1965 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman ALBERT THOMAS, Texas EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut D. R. (BILLY) MATTHEWS, Florida FRANK T. BOW, Ohio CHARLES R. JONAS, North Carolina MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB, California JOHN J. RHODES, Arizona WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, Ohio KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director (II) DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, AND COMMERCE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1966 U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1965. WITNESSES CARL T. ROWAN, DIRECTOR BEN POSNER, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (ADMINISTRATION) INCREASES REQUESTED FOR FISCAL YEAR 1966 The total of the requests for this Agency in six separate appropriation items is $173,249,100, which would be an increase of $18,849,100 over the amounts appropriated to date in the current fiscal year. The largest part of this increase is in the "Acquisition and construction of radio facilities" item in the amount $14,601,000. The total requested for "Salaries and expenses," the first item to which we shall direct our attention, is $152,223,000, of which $141,111,000 is requested in dollars and $11,112,000 is requested in the appropriation, "Salaries and expenses," foreign currency program. The total amount requested is an increase of $6,223,000 over the amount appropriated to date for the current fiscal year. We are pleased to have with us this morning the Director of the U.S. Information Agency, the Honorable Carl T. Rowan. I believe Mr. Rowan has a prepared statement to present to the committee at this time. Will you please proceed, Ambassador Rowan? Mr. RowAN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. GENERAL STATEMENT I come before you having spent almost exactly a year as Director of the U.S. Information Agency. It has been perhaps as difficult, and at the same time as rewarding, a year as any in the Agency's history, or for that matter as any year in my own life. You have read of our troubles-of attacks on USIA libraries that have occurred for a variety of reasons; disagreement with U.S. policies and actions in the Congo, South Vietnam or Cyprus; unruly teenagers wanting simply to join in a fad; or instigation by Communits who believed that our libraries are too influential and wish them abolished. (1) |