United States Information Agency organization
also: The U.S. Information Agency, USIA, the information agency, U.S. Information Services, best information, unattributed U.S. information agency, US Information Agency, U.S. Information Agency
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Claims (12)
CIA front_for
United States Information Agency host_asserted
“talked about that Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of those things, the U.S. Information Agency, were all CIA fronts. So there's no useful purpose for the American people to know that they're being propagandized by their government…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 56:41
United States Information Agency worked_with
CIA host_asserted
“cooperating this entire time. Psychological warfare particularly was pursued covertly by the State Department through U.S. Information Agency and Voice of America Radio. They were working in tandem with the CIA. The U.S. Information Agency …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 39:15
United States Information Agency financed
Japan host_asserted
“By 1955, unattributed U.S. information agency money had financed six feature films, opened several broadcasts of more than 18,000 hours of radio time. It would be like the equivalent of beaming on two frequencies 24 hours a day for a year. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 40:17
John Noss member_of
United States Information Agency documented
“KNA US, an operational analyst for the covert branch of the CIA, had spent several years detached to the US Information Agency. A CIA guy working at the US Information Agency, which we've said all along, was basically just another CIA front…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 44:23
Carl Rowan headed
United States Information Agency book_quoted
“form of civil disobedience. That's going to matter later. Used by the civil rights movement in a campaign against U.S. apartheid. He rejected Malcolm's message of black retaliation and separatism. The purpose of his tour was to articulate a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1 @ 1:06:27
Everett Bumgartner member_of
United States Information Agency host_asserted
“Had went to Thailand and Cambodia and all over the Southeast Asia, basically. We also met Everett Bumgartner, B-U-M-G-A-R-T-N-E-R, who was the chief of the U.S. Information Office field operations in Vietnam.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 3:18
Edward Lansdale appointed
United States Information Agency book_quoted
“on what it will take to win against a communist team, unquote. He anticipated problems. He said that there needed to be a spirit among the bureaucrats, but doggone it, we have to work with what we have. A month later, Lansdale asked the Att…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 18:24
Edward Lansdale member_of
United States Information Agency book_quoted
“Lansdale's authority to give him orders. So he wanted to have the U.S. Information Agency working under Lansdale on this project. A week after Lansdale warned Bobby of his presentation to the special group, when Lansdale actually presented …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 18:55
United States Information Agency front_for
CIA host_asserted
“by the Marshall Plan. They're really, really, really pushing the Marshall Plan. And people should ask why. All of this was distributed by none other than the U.S. Information Agency, which again is another CIA front. He showed films when he…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3 @ 23:55
United States Information Agency front_for
CIA book_quoted
“on what it will take to win against a communist team, unquote. He anticipated problems. He said that there needed to be a spirit among the bureaucrats, but doggone it, we have to work with what we have. A month later, Lansdale asked the Att…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 18:24
Alvin Snyder headed
United States Information Agency host_asserted
“that the people in Europe and in the United States was opposed to until all of a sudden this aircraft gets shot down and then everybody's scrambling around saying they want missiles. Again, not a coincidence. Alvin Snyder, the director of t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 58 - 'L.A INSURRECTION - LINKS TO THE PAST' - EP.426 @ 36:10
CIA front_for
United States Information Agency host_asserted
“KNA US, an operational analyst for the covert branch of the CIA, had spent several years detached to the US Information Agency. A CIA guy working at the US Information Agency, which we've said all along, was basically just another CIA front…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 44:23
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▶ 36:10
that the people in Europe and in the United States was opposed to until all of a sudden this aircraft gets shot down and then everybody's scrambling around saying they want missiles. Again, not a coincidence. Alvin Snyder, the director of t…
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It was discovered that some of the CIA's top case officers were assigned to various official and non-official cover assignments in Indonesia during that same time frame. They used the USAID, the Peace Corps, and the U.S. Information Agency,…
▶ 1:02:52
The pressures in this small community are heavy. So basically, they underwent a huge psyops to basically try to convince everybody there that the Bishop government had been awful. And in June, we learned that the schools also implemented a …
▶ 37:11
The U.S. Information Agency, which is USIA, which is another CIA propaganda thing that has showed up in many of these coups, it began to place unattributed articles, anonymous, labeling different parts of the Guatemalan government officials…
▶ 37:40
In a very short period of time that was positioned throughout all of Latin America, calling him a communist. And it just feeds on itself. So you also had the information agency distributed more than 100,000 copies of pamphlets entitled Chro…
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AID, and also the U.S. Information Agency, which is basically a propaganda arm of the CIA disguised as a State Department entity. So we left off with a guy by the name of Frank Scotton, S-C-O-T-T-O-N, who had basically been recruited into V…
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Jonathan Sloat's relationship with Bush symbolized the way Bush and his friends looked at business and the government as working in a partnership. Sloat spent Bush's two terms as vice president moving in and out of various agencies, includi…
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In addition to being a liaison, the CIA wished to have its own source among South Vietnamese politicians and interest groups. By 1960, the agency was supplying the best information outside of the presidential palace, save perhaps a few of t…
▶ 1:18:21
their citizens and installed a Gestapo-like government structure with, and I can name the names, I mean, the Office of Transition Initiatives, the Office of Public Safety, they used all of the same things, USAID, U.S. Information Agency, al…
▶ 1:13:10
to the CIA's intervention to successfully make sure he did not. It said that Mann had authored a 10-point plan to ensure Allende did not get elected. Threats of economic retaliation against Chile if they elected Allende. CIA and U.S. Inform…
▶ 55:12
The Latin press was infiltrated by the U.S. Information Agency. So they're writing articles down there, all lies. And they had, let's see, Arbenz made his invasion on June 18th, riding in old vehicles with about 140 soldiers with him. But t…
▶ 5:38
Arguments for democracy were pervasive in the psychological warfare ploys he favored. In Europe in the 1950s, Ike put democracy at the core of his secret war against Russia, articulating overtly through U.S. Information Agency, a CIA front,…
▶ 10:41
had concerns about coordination between the CIA and the Pentagon, observing that someone high in government could be calculating the long-term wisdom of these operations. Bruce and Lovett went to Eisenhower at the end of 56, advising Eisenh…
▶ 39:15
cooperating this entire time. Psychological warfare particularly was pursued covertly by the State Department through U.S. Information Agency and Voice of America Radio. They were working in tandem with the CIA. The U.S. Information Agency …
▶ 39:48
filled with CIA assets or agents, all of them. They were working in the libraries. That's what they were there for. In Japan, for example, psychological strategy board plans dictated support for a liberal democratic party. The U.S. Informat…
▶ 40:17
By 1955, unattributed U.S. information agency money had financed six feature films, opened several broadcasts of more than 18,000 hours of radio time. It would be like the equivalent of beaming on two frequencies 24 hours a day for a year. …
▶ 41:47
But the acting CIA director in 1995 letter to the New York Times did not even attempt to deny it. They retreated to the argument that the CIA needed to keep faith with recipients of covert aid. We did it because we had to. The agency marche…
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Information Agency was a CIA front. In Italy, where the CIA political action built towards the May 1958 election, the U.S. Information Agency operation grew as large as the secret warriors supporting them. Tracy Barnes and then Miles Copela…
▶ 44:23
KNA US, an operational analyst for the covert branch of the CIA, had spent several years detached to the US Information Agency. A CIA guy working at the US Information Agency, which we've said all along, was basically just another CIA front…
▶ 18:24
on what it will take to win against a communist team, unquote. He anticipated problems. He said that there needed to be a spirit among the bureaucrats, but doggone it, we have to work with what we have. A month later, Lansdale asked the Att…
▶ 18:55
Lansdale's authority to give him orders. So he wanted to have the U.S. Information Agency working under Lansdale on this project. A week after Lansdale warned Bobby of his presentation to the special group, when Lansdale actually presented …
▶ 56:41
talked about that Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of those things, the U.S. Information Agency, were all CIA fronts. So there's no useful purpose for the American people to know that they're being propagandized by their government…
▶ 36:53
come into play, like Frank Shakespeare. And you spell his name, Shakespeare, with an E on the end of it. He, as a matter of fact, we've come across him many times. He was actually the director of U.S. Information Agency and a trustee at the…
▶ 23:55
by the Marshall Plan. They're really, really, really pushing the Marshall Plan. And people should ask why. All of this was distributed by none other than the U.S. Information Agency, which again is another CIA front. He showed films when he…
▶ 24:31
which is a CIA front. So in three months, he had given over 27 lectures. He basically was making an appeal to donate to his International Center for Union Training in Geneva. It was created by the Swiss in connection with the FOBB before he…
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That was intended to promote the American way of life around the world. You know, everybody wanted to be like America. The agencies involved were the Department of State, the Department of Labor, the U.S. Information Agency, the CIA, and th…
▶ 34:33
it later became the U.S. Information Agency, again a CIA front, effectively banked on useful personal contacts rather than blind mass propaganda, targeted propaganda. 1950, the cultural attaché in Bern called for an up-to-date technique for…
▶ 1:06:27
form of civil disobedience. That's going to matter later. Used by the civil rights movement in a campaign against U.S. apartheid. He rejected Malcolm's message of black retaliation and separatism. The purpose of his tour was to articulate a…