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turned it over to the director-general and the Under Secretary for Administration, who at that time was Crocker, -- Rusk was Secretary of State, but I didn't have any direct contact with him after the first thing in '61 -- it was their property. We knew it was classified. But I never again knew, from any direct communication from the top in the State Department, what, if anything, ever happened to our recommendation.

All I knew was that, every now and then, what they called the “Clark Report” was referred to in some discussion, and this came from some of my friends and informants in the Department.

This particular program that we are now looking at and evaluating seemed to many to be an offshoot of some of the findings of our -- of that report of ten years ago, whenever it was.

Again, I kept saying, “All right, this is buried wherever the Herter Commission report, or wherever the other investigations and reports about the American Foreign Service have been buried.”

But I kept being told informally, “No, not quite. We're taking a hard look at the exam, probably putting a little more emphasis upon the oral than the written --”

Except, hell, they didn't get to the oral until they'd passed the written.

Well, anyway, this particular program that we're looking at is a program in which minorities are being brought in as Foreign Service Reserve junior officers, bypassing the written exam. And being evaluated in the field. But interestingly enough, do not become Foreign Service officers on the bas is of the field