UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

Domain	Definition
Economics	Responsible for the U.S. government overseas information and cultural programs, including Voice of America. Conducts a wide variety of communication activities-academic and cultural exchanges to press, radio, television and library programs abroad in order to strengthen foreign understanding of American society, obtain greater support of U.S. policies, and increase understanding between the U.S. and other countries. (USIA). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: United States Information Agency

USIA'S MISSION: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

USIA's mission was to understand, inform and influence foreign publics in promotion of the national interest, and to broaden the dialogue between Americans and U.S. institutions and their counterparts abroad.

USIA's goals were:

Increased understanding and acceptance of U.S. policies and U.S. society by foreign audiences.
Broadened dialogue between Americans and U.S. institutions and their counterparts overseas.
Increased U.S. Government knowledge and understanding of foreign attitudes and their implications for U.S. foreign policy.

USIA was established in August 1953 and operated under that name until April 1978, when its functions were consolidated with those of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State. Following a brief period during the Carter administration when it was called the International Communications Agency (USICA), the agency's name was restored to USIA in August 1982. The agency was known as United States Information Service (USIS) overseas but could not use that abbreviation to avoid confusion with the United States Immigration Service.

The Foreign Affairs and Restructuring Act abolished the U.S. Information Agency effective October 1, 1999.

External link

Archive of agency website

Non-Fiction Usage: UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Cameroon	The United States Information Agency organizes and funds diverse cultural, educational, and information exchanges. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Alternative Orthography: UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

Specialty Definition: UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

Economics

Specialty Definition: United States Information Agency

External link

Non-Fiction Usage: UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

Economic History

Cameroon

Alternative Orthography: UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

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