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The Agency for International Development (AID) is responsible for administering economic as well as humanitarian assistance worldwide. Especially targeted are developing countries of the Third World as well as countries in Eastern and Central Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. The agency is divided into four geographic bureaus: Africa, Asia and the Near East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and the New Independent States, and another bureau for Humanitarian Response. Overall, AID administers programs in nearly 100 foreign countries.

AID was organized under Re-Organization Plan No. 2 of 1979 (5 U.S.C. app.) and Executive Order No. 12163 of September 1979. AID administers programs under authorization of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and is overseen by the U.S. Department of State. AID was established under the administration of...