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Article: Takeover by State Department worries USIA employees.(World)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 21, 1998
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The State Department is to hand over to Congress today a long-awaited plan to take over the U.S. Information Agency, setting off deep anxiety in the government's foreign propaganda arm.
Congress ordered the restructuring of America's foreign affairs agencies in the final budget resolution, and the bill was shepherded into law by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms, North Carolina Republican.
USIA sources say its 4,300 employees at U.S. embassies around the world, and 3,200 USIA staffers in Washington fear they might lose their jobs, move to lower-level jobs or be used as a domestic public relations arm of the State Department.
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