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68. Memorandum From the Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency ( Akers ) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Bundy )

of AID consumes much more than one-half of total USIA resources in the underdeveloped world. In some countries, the effort to derive maximum psychological effect from the AID program, in effect IS the USIS program, consuming 95% of USIS resources in Nigeria, for example. In most USIA media geographical divisions, the AID subject is the single largest concern dealt with directly: 40% of the VOA Far East program, for instance. Massive and continuous promotion of U.S. economic assistance programs has been provided by USIA and its field posts, from the Marshall Plan to the Alliance for Progress Th…