Archive - February 10, 2015

Dean Rusk, Secretary of State during the Kennedy Administration, spelled out the role of the Peace Corps in Foreign Policy in this directive.This Airgram went out to all embassies in the Third World.  The actual document was scanned by the Research Staff at the JFK Library and received  February 3, 2015.  The document comes from National Security Files, Box 284, Peace Corps: General, 1/63-3/63. Here are scans of the original document. Side 1 – click for larger image . Side 2 – click for larger image The actual text in the scan of the original document is hard to read when it is reproduced.  I have typed this text from that scan of the original copy, as follows: From: DEPARTMENT OF STATE Date:  March 25, 1963 SUBJECT: PEACE CORPS ROLE IN U. S. FOREIGN POLICY The Peace Corps has been in operation for two years. From the beginning of the Peace . . .