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B-229069 1 (1987-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkxw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington. D.C. 20548 - B-229069 - Q NOT MAKE AVAiLABLE TO PUBLIC READING FOR 30 DAYS Septe.ber 30, 1987 The Honorable Jack Brooks Chairman, Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This responds to your letter of March 31, 1987, in which you and Representative Dante B. Fascell, Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, requested this Office to conduct an investigati n and render a legal opinion on the legality and propriety of certain activities of the Office for Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean (S/LPD) of the Department of State. Subsequent discussi~n with your staff limited the scope of the legal opinion to the issues of alleged lobbying and the development and dissemination of propaganda from 1984 to the present. We conducted a review to develop :-.e facts regarding the lobbying and propaganda issues, wn-:h consisted of inter- views of knowledgeable individuals and a search of the S/LPO files. As a result of our reiew, we conclude that S/LPD's activities involving the preparation and dissemina- tion of certain types of information violated a restriction on the use of appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes not autnorized by the Congress. We do not believe, however, that available evidence will support a conclusion that the applicable antilobbying statute has been violated. We are presently continuing a review of certain other S/LSo activities, and will keep you informed of our progress on a periodic basis. THE PROPAGANDA ISSUE According to Ambassador Otto J. Reich, who directed S/LPD from 1983 until 1986, the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean was established witnin tne Office of the Secretary of State in 1983 to engage in a campaign to inflence the public and the Congress to support increased Uncd: fror tne Administration's Central American policy. in of its puolic :io:)macv mission, SiPD used its own str, and !et a n- of conracts wtn

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