USIA


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USIA

abbr.
United States Information Agency
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USIA

or U.S.I.A.,

United States Information Agency.
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The exchange of persons program conducted by IIA remained in the Department of State, but USIA administered the program overseas.
While the authors studiously avoid any references to the recent election, the paper provides a great deal of insight on how a new, improved USIA on steroids might work and what it would be up against.
gratus (Loew, 1856) excluding species that have been transferred to the genus Usia later (Evenhuis, 1990; Gibbs, 2014).
In response, the USIA's assistant director termed Fulbright's views "naive and stupid."
(21) The restated Zorinsky Amendment would also apply its ban on influencing public opinion to the BBG, and replace the mention of the now defunct USIA with the State Department.
With the abolition of the United States Information Agency (USIA) in 1999, it became an orphan.
Each of the five core elements of public diplomacy--the influence of the USIA's advice and data on US foreign policy, the mobilization of the USIA in the direct advancement of US foreign policy goals, cultural diplomacy, exchange diplomacy, and international broadcasting--are addressed.