Implementation of the Helsinki Accords Vol. III – Information Flow, And Cultural And Educational Exchanges
Tuesday, May 17, 1977, 4:00 am
Witnesses
John Reinhardt
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Director, U.S. Information Agency
Joseph Duffey
Assistant Secretary of State, Educational and Cultural Affairs
Department of State
Sig Mickelson
President
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, Inc.
Leonard Marks
Former Director, USIA, Chairman
U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs
Allen Kassof
Executive Director
International Research and Exchanges Board
Loren Graham
Research Associate, Program on Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Professor of History
Columbia University
Robert Adelstein
Co-Chairman, Committee of Concerned Scientists
Head, Molecular Cardiology Section of the NIH
Leo Albert
Chariman
Board of Prentice-Hall International and Washington Liaison Committee of the American Association of Publishers
Robert Bernstein
President and Chairman of the Board
Random House, Inc., Former Head of the Association of Publishers' International Freedom to Publish Committee
Lothar Loewe
Television Correspondent
West Germany
In this hearing, Commissioner Dante Fascell and others discussed the impact that the Helsinki Accords had on easing and expanding the flow of ideas and information across ideological and international frontiers. The rationale for this hearing, which consisted of three mornings of testimony, was that, while the Commission has had a long and storied history of hearing and discussing the movement of people, one goal of the Helsinki Accords is to diminish the obstacles that keep the views of others out, which are also the borders that restrict freedom of movement for people.
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