The United States Information Agency was a United States government agency devoted to propaganda which operated from 1953 to 1999. The agency's primary mission was to promote a favorable view of the U
A propaganda poster produced by USIA, exhorting Northern Vietnamese residents to move South, in 1954.
USIA library in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1965, during the apartheid era.
USIA employees at teleprinters monitoring Middle East activities, 1967
In the United States federal government, independent agencies are agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments and the Executive Office of the President. In a narrower sense, the term
United States Information Agency
…intelligence functions to the newly created under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs at the U.S. Department of State and the now independent agency, the International Broadcasting Bureau. USIA's broadcasting functions were moved to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which had been created in 1994…
The headquarters of the Federal Reserve System
A USPS truck in the snow