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ations) and also special projects in fields outside of the IIAA's scope
operated by other agencies of the Government. Thus the Bureau of the
Census might directly operate some project for technical assistance
in census-taking with Point Four funds allocated by the Department
and under the general field supervision of the IIAA Chief.
  There is reason to believe that this "chosen instrument" approach
2
might be acceptable to the other agencies of Government, if it were
agreed that they would supply the "technical backstopping", where
it is not agreeable to them today under circumstances in which IJAA
duplicates to some extent their technical staffs. I am told, for example,
that the USDA has indicated informal agreement to the use of ECA
as the chosen instrument in southeast Asia on this basis.
  From our point of view, of course, a fundamental point is that the
IIAA, while a separate agency of the Government from the Depart-
ment of State, is fully under the control of the Department through
its Board of Directors appointed by the Secretary. This is not the
case with the ECA.
  Underlying this memorandum is one prepared at my request by
Philip -Glick, Acting President of the IIAA.3 It sets forth in more
detail the general scheme and arguments that I have sketched above.
I do not agree with it in all its points but consider it a sound and
competent basis, subject to revision, for reaching -agreement among
the bureaus and offices concerned in the Department. It has already
been discussed with Mr. Gardiner 4 of NEA and a copy of it is in his
hands.
   I should note here that Mr. Glick advocates a single agency within
the Department for the entire world, but proposes-the alternative of
regional agencies in close association and combination with one
another.
   Passage of the Point Four legislation is now impending momen-
 tarily. The next rapid move will be the presentation to the Congress
 of appropriation requests, and it may be expected that- tables of organ-
 ization and various procedural matters will become gelled in the
 process. I do not believe it would be useful for us to putter further
 with the proposals set forth above and in Mr. Glick's memorandum.

 'A term then popular in the Department of State, in reference to an existing
 agency or program, -or one to be newly created, which would be the vehicle
 ("chosen instrument") for the administration of the Point IV program
-in a given
 area, as in Latin America (the IIAA) or the Near East (to be established).
 'a Notattached. It is quite probably the same as a memorandum attached to
the
 Halle memorandum of February 9 (see footnote 10, p. 856) and entitled "The
 Institute of InteriAmerican Affairs and Technical Assistance in Latin America
 under Point 4" (820.00-TA/2-950).
 4Arthur Z. Gardiner, Refugee Adviser, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian
 and African Affairs.