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U.S. Information Agency

A former organization of the U.S. State Department that distributed information to foreign countries. It advocated American policy abroad. During the Cold War, its content was largely pro-American propaganda. It existed from 1953 to 1999.

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Los sesgos de Freedom House: un juez con sospechosos financiamientos

I'm thinking of the old reading of Abstract Expressionism's manipulation by the US Information Agency to represent an American ideology of "freedom.

Grand allusion: James Meyer talks with Anne Truitt

One of her friends, Clifton Daniel, the assistant managing editor at the Times and husband of Margaret Truman, contacted US Information Agency chief Edward R.

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In many respects, the new information group is a smaller, less structured successor to the independent US Information Agency, which the State Department will absorb in October.