TRACE RESPONSE ON (DELETED) THE ASIA FOUNDATION

Created: 5/28/1999

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INFORMATIONEPORT ENTITLED THE ASIA FOUNDATION. PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE" WHICH WAS PHI-PARED FOR THE US. SENATE COMMITTEE OF FOREIGN RELATIONS BY THE TOREIGN AFFAIRS AND NATIONAL DEFENSE DIVISION, CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IN3

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PRESJDENT LYNDON JOHNSON DIRECTLD THAT ALL SUCH COVERT FUNC-NG

TERMINATED OMMISSION APPOINTED BY THE

PRESTOENT ANO CHAIRED BY SECRETARYTEX CONCLUDED THAT FT WOULD BE IN THE NATIONAL "NTEREST TO PRESERVE THE ASIA FOUNDATION. THE STATE DEPARTMENT WAS ASKEDWTT MOUSE INTO FiNO AN OVERT MEANSUNDING THE FOUNDATIONFW ANO MORE PFRMANE NT FUNDING MECHANISM WAS ESTABLISHED II ACCOMPLISHED THIS BY MAKING YEARLY GcNERAl SUPPORT GRANTS THROUGH. AGENCY FOH NTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE STATE DEPARTMENTS BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL ANO CULTURAL AFFAIRS.

5 THE ASIA FOUNDATION TRUSTEES REQUESTED THAT. GOVERNMENT REVTFW THE SITUAPON AND DECIDE W)H NOT

T WANTED THE ASIA FOUNDATION PROGRAM TO CONTINUE. INTHE STATE DEPARTMENT ANO AIDANEL OF PRIVATE CITIZENS WITH FOREIGN AFFAIRS EXPERIENCE TO REVIEW AND EVALUATE THE FOUNDATION'S RECORD AND POTENTIAL FOR ASS STING IN

The ACHIEVEMENT OF US OBUfCTTVES IN ASIA THE PANEL

ED THAT THE FOUNDATION IS AN EFFECTIVE INSTRUMENT FOR

THE FURTHER NG OF UNITED STATESIN ASA IN

ADDITION. THEONCLUDED THAT THE FOUNDATION COULD BEST SERVE THE PURPOSES FOH WWCH IT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED BY

REMAINRIVATE BODY. BUTEMORANDUM_

UNDERSTANDING SHOULD BL DRAFTED VWHCH WOULD LAY OUT CLEARLY ITS STATUS ANO RELATIONSHIP WITH. GOVERNMENT.

HE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT ANO BUDGET (OMB) DIRECTED THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO TAKE OVERHE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROVIDING THE ASIA FOUNDATION WITH ITS BASIC GENERAL SUPPORT (CORE GRANT).

OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS AND THROUGH

sivFKJri. PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS. THERE WERECLSSCNSt SOURCE ANO AMOUNT OF FUNDING FOR THE FOUNDATION WHICH AT THE TIME THIS REPORT WAS WRITTEN DID NOT

SEEM TO BE RESOLVED AST APPEARS THAT THE ASA

FOUNDATION WAS CONT NUNC TO OPERATF WITH ITS CORE BUDGET BEING PROV DECOVERNMENT (STATE DEPARTMENT) ASSISTANCE)

"ASIA FOUNOAT ION PROGRAMS ARC CURRENTLY CONDUCTED THROUOH

TENFFICES SRi LAN KAMAL DIVES. PAKISTAN.

9ANGLACESHNFPAL. THAILAND,GAPORE. INDONESIA I* PHILIPPINES. JAPAN. KORFA ANO 'AIWAN THE SAN FRANCISCO CI FICE ALSO ADMINISTERS FOUNDA'IQN PROGRAMS IN THE PEOPLES REPUBIC Of CHINA. HONG KONG AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS IN ADOmON. THE FOUNDATIONERMANENT OFFICE INR LIAISON WITH. GOVERNMENT.

THE ASIA FOUNDATION PROGRAMS CENTER AROUND MAKING GRANTS TO HUNDREDS OK ASIAN INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS EACH YEAR, OFTEN IN RESPONSE TO ASIAN REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE WITH PROJECTS WH CH THEY INITIATE AND TO WHICH THEY SOME! MPS PROVIDE MATCHING INPUTS THE FOUNDATION ALSO HANDLES TRAINING AND STUDY PLACEMENT CF GRANTEES INCTS AS CO-SPONSOR AND ORGANIZER OF AS AN SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES AND ARRANGES CONTACTS ANO ONGOING RFIATIONSH PS BETWEEN THE AMERICAN EOUCATOKAL VOLUNTARY AND BUSWESS SECTORS ANDASIAN COUNTERPARTS

THE LONG RANGE GOALS ADOPTED BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE FOUNDATION TO GUOE ITS WORK ARE.

-TO STRENGTHEN ASIAN iNOtGENOUS NSTTTUT ONS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TOTlCAL DEVELOPMENT. EQUITABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH ANO COOPERATIVE REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

ENCOURAGE CONSTRUCTIVE SOCIAL CHANGE IN ASIA AND TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH OF MORF OPEN ANO JUST SOCIETIES CONCERNED WITH THE RIGHTS ANO OPPORTUNITIES OF INDIVIDUALS. THEIR BASIC HUMAN NHEDS AND BROADER POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

"TO ASSIST IN THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OT CONTEMPORARY ASIAN LEADERSHIP BY OFFERING ENCOURAGEMENT ANO HFIP TOADtHS IN GOVERNMENT SERVICES. THE

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PROFESSIONS. AND IN THE PRIVAIt'FCCNOMIC. VOLUNTARY AND TRADITIONAL SECTORS OF ASIAN SOCIETIES.

"TO FOSTER ATTITUDES AND POLICIES WTHIN ASIA WHICH CONTRIBUTEETTER ENVIRONMENT FOR THE GROWTH OF MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL ECONOMIC RE1AT10NSH1PS, FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND WORLD TRADE.

TO FURTHER AS1AN-AMERICAN COOPERATION. UNDERSTANDING AND MUTUALROVED COMMUMCATON THE EXCHANGE Of PERSONS ANO IOCE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE ANO TECHNOLOGY. ANO THROUGH SHARING OF CULTURAL EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS."

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