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  • abbreviation United States Information Agency

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Examples

  • The USIA is a well-known spy agency posing as humanitarian aid.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • We need to restore diplomacy, restore the US Information Agency (USIA), and create a global information sharing and sense-making network that is multinational and competent in all languages.

    Robert David Steele: 12 Core Policy Domains Robert David Steele 2010

  • * The USIS is known domestically as the United States Information Agency USIA, but for clarity and consistency will be referred to henceforth as USIS.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • * The USIS is known domestically as the United States Information Agency USIA, but for clarity and consistency will be referred to henceforth as USIS.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • In 1989, when I accompanied the Houston Grand Opera's production of Show Boat to the Middle East (where it participated in the inaugural season of the new Cairo Opera House), the cultural exchange was facilitated by the joint efforts of the United States Information Agency (USIA), Egypt's Ministry of Culture, and Marriott Hotels & Resorts.

    George Heymont: The Fabulous Invalid Clings to Life George Heymont 2011

  • We need to restore diplomacy, restore the US Information Agency (USIA), and create a global information sharing and sense-making network that is multinational and competent in all languages.

    Robert David Steele: 12 Core Policy Domains Robert David Steele 2010

  • USIA was disbanded, but the diplomats of the State Department have little interest in upsetting other countries by defending broadcasting or circumvention efforts.

    The VOA Is Losing Its Voice L. Gordon Crovitz 2011

  • We need to restore diplomacy, restore the US Information Agency (USIA), and create a global information sharing and sense-making network that is multinational and competent in all languages.

    Robert David Steele: 12 Core Policy Domains Robert David Steele 2010

  • We need to restore diplomacy, restore the US Information Agency (USIA), and create a global information sharing and sense-making network that is multinational and competent in all languages.

    Robert David Steele: 12 Core Policy Domains Robert David Steele 2010

  • In 1989, when I accompanied the Houston Grand Opera's production of Show Boat to the Middle East (where it participated in the inaugural season of the new Cairo Opera House), the cultural exchange was facilitated by the joint efforts of the United States Information Agency (USIA), Egypt's Ministry of Culture, and Marriott Hotels & Resorts.

    George Heymont: The Fabulous Invalid Clings to Life George Heymont 2011

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