With no idea what the celebrations would be, where they would take place-or even when they were to take place-foreign agencies had little to work with.
Some foreign agencies do seize crudely on images of emaciated infants to secure extra funding.
This company have five branches at home and two foreign agencies abroad.
Analysts were granted greater access to databases kept by foreign agencies-but locating relevant files proved hard.
There is a new liaison office for the swift swapping of information with foreign agencies, and a new witness-protection scheme (though this must make do with a budget of just $700, 000).
By contrast, within a couple of weeks of the earthquake in Haiti, governments and other donors had made grand pledges of help and foreign agencies were jostling to aid the victims.
