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USIA | U S Information Agency | |
USIA | United States Intelligence Agency | |
USIA | Urban School Improvement Alliance | |
USIA | United Sabah Islamic Association | |
USIA | United Sigma Intelligence Association | |
USIA | UnSanitary and Ignorant Aliens | |
USIA | United States Industrial Alcohol | |
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USIA | United State Industrial Accreditation | |
USIA | Ultimate Security and Investigations of America | |
USIA | Urban Streamflow Impact Assessment |
What does USIA mean?
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- The United States Information Agency (USIA), which operated from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy". In 1999, prior to the reorganization of intelligence agencies by President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton assigned USIA's cultural exchange and non-broadcasting intelligence functions to the newly created Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. USIA's broadcasting functions were moved to the newly created Broadcasting Board of Governors. The agency was previously known overseas as the United States Information Service (USIS) of the U.S. Embassy; the current name, the Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, is sometimes translated as the Public Relations and Cultural Exchange Agency. Former USIA Director of TV and Film Service Alvin Snyder recalled in his 1995 memoir that "the U.S. government ran a full-service public relations organization, the largest in the world, about the size of the twenty biggest U.S. commercial PR firms combined. Its full-time professional staff of more than 10,000, spread out among some 150 countries, burnished America‘s image and trashed the Soviet Union 2,500 hours a week with a 'tower of babble' comprised of more than 70 languages, to the tune of over $2 billion per year". "The biggest branch of this propaganda machine" was the USIA.
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