Cultural attaché
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A cultural attaché is a diplomat
Diplomacy
Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states...

 with special responsibility for promoting the culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 of his or her homeland. The position has been used as an official cover
Official cover
Official cover is a term used in espionage to refer to operatives who assume positions in organizations with diplomatic ties to the government for which they work....

 for intelligence agents. Historically, the post has often been filled by writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

s and artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

s, giving them a steady income
Income
Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified time frame, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. However, for households and individuals, "income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interests payments, rents and other forms of earnings...

, allowing them to do their own creative work, while promoting their own country's culture abroad.

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