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USIA'S "PUBLIC DIPLOMACY" MISSION The USIA's mission was to understand, inform and influence foreign publics in promotion of the national interest, to broaden the dialogue between Americans and US institutions and their counterparts abroad, and to foster exchanges of students, professors, and diverse categories of citizens between the US and foreign societies. The USIA's goals were:
The USIA was established in August 1953, although cultural and educational exchange functions remained in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the Department Of State until 1978, when they were shifted to USIA. 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 domestically to avoid confusion with the United States Immigration Service. The Foreign Affairs and Restructuring Act abolished the US Information Agency effective October 1, 1999, when its information and exchange functions were folded into the Department of State under a new Bureau Of Public Diplomacy And Public Affairs , headed by an under secretary. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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