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FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1950, VOLUME I


expressed and implied commitments both to other agencies and to the
Congress. However, the oral expressions of representatives of some of
the other agencies at recent ACTA meetings indicate ýthat they are
now thinking in terms of much greater participation than they en-
visaged in the management plan. I believe there are certain;things
which we should do to ensure a maximum extent of control over the
program.
   a. Although we should basically stick to the management plan (al-
 locate money to other agencies to carry out approved projects permit-
 ting them to send their own technicians to the field and furnish the
 technical back stop to make sure that they are under the control of
 the Chief of the Foreign Service Mission) wherever we find a situa-
 tion similar to that now existing in Southeast Asia where thelforeign
 political implications are extremely important, we should attempt to
 stick to a straight line operation. Moreover in all countries where
 there is to be substantial amount of Point IV activity there should be
 a chief of field to be employed by the StaeDepartment.
   b. We should make sure that the Executive Order to be issued
 clearly gi.ves to the Secretary of State all of the powers and authority
 vvsted in the President by the Act.9
   c. With respect to ARA, consideration should be given to the plan
 of operation outlined in Mr. Halle's memorandum of February 9,
 1950 (Tab E 10). This would make the IIAA (as an integral part of
 ARA) the operating agency for its region. However the IIAA would
 look to the other agencies of government-for its technicians.1'
   d.. The relationship between the, Point IV technicians and-thefield
 posts must be clearly spelled out. We should make sure that all com-
 inunications between the agencies concerned and the technicians in
 -the field flow through the State Department.
   P. At -an early date ACTA should be abolished and the advisory
 ,program board established.


     Substantially, this was the effect of Executive Order-10159,-September
8, 1950,
  15FeeeraZ Register 6103. The executive order also directed the Secretary
of State
  to :establish ,an Interdepartmental Advisorky ''Council on. Technical Cooperation,
  which was to be composed of the heads of participating departments and
agencies
  or their representatives.
    10This memorandum was not attached to this document but i& found
in the
  Department's central indexed files (820.00-TA/2-950).
    "The documents immediately following are illustrative principally
of the
  II AA problem.,

  $20.00-TA/5-1850
  eie Moranduim by Air. Louis J0 Halle, Jr., Special Adviser, Bureau
     of Inater-America- Affairs, to the Deputy ' Assistant Secretary of
     S'Stat-e.for Inter-Ameriean :Aff'airs (Barber)

   (coNFIDEINTIAL                       [WASHINGTON,] May 18 1950.
     In accordance with our conversation onA the subject, I set forth
   here certain views on the organization and administration of Point
   Four technical cooperation in the other American republics.