State Dept. Calls Draft Reorganization Document ‘Fake’
A purported draft executive order to reorganize the State Department that served as the basis for a New York Times article is a "fake document,” an agency spokesperson said in an email April 21.
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A version of the document posted on LinkedIn shows the Office of the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security (T) would be eliminated, and its Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) and Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence and Stability would be merged into the Bureau of Non-Proliferation under the Under Secretary for Transnational Threat Elimination. ISN has been responsible for reviewing and adjudicating Bureau of Industry and Security export licenses and heavily involved in coordinating U.S. talks at multilateral regimes, such as the Wassenaar Arrangement, and other export control dialogues, including chip control talks with Japan and the Netherlands.
The document also shows that T’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which oversees the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, the agency responsible for implementing and enforcing the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, would continue and would absorb political-military assistance functions.