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    The United States Information Agency (USIA) was a United States government agency devoted to the practice of public diplomacy which operated from 1953...
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  • definitions of an agency of the federal government of the United States are varied, and even contradictory. The official United States Government Manual...
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  • In the United States government, independent agencies are agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary)...
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    foreign audiences. Prior to this, the United States Department of State and then the United States Information Agency (USIA) beginning in 1952, were prohibited...
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    The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), known as the Defense Communications Agency (DCA) until 1991, is a United States Department of Defense (DoD)...
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    United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), known until 2018 as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), is an independent agency of the United States...
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    The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA /ˈfɔɪjə/ FOY-yə), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full...
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  • not then handle Top Secret information, but may handle Secret and Confidential classified information. The United States does not have a British-style...
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    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. President...
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    The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for...
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    The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an intelligence agency and combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense, specializing in...
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    The federal government of the United States empowers a wide range of federal law enforcement agencies (informally known as the "Feds") to maintain law...
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    strategic level, comes from the Voice of America or United States Information Agency. In the United States Department of Defense, Psychological Operations...
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    The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II. The OWI operated from June 1942 until...
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    The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National...
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  • became United States Bureau of Fisheries in 1903. United States Information Agency (USIA) United States Life-Saving Service Merged with the United States Revenue...
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  • Awards and decorations of the United States government are civilian awards of the U.S. federal government which are typically issued for sustained meritorious...
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    The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a group of separate U.S. federal government intelligence agencies and subordinate organizations that work...
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  • collection agency that gathers account information from various creditors and provides that information to a consumer reporting agency in the United States, a...
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    the International Broadcasting Bureau, the successor of the United States Information Agency, established in 1953. IBB's operations include Voice of America...
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  • The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019...
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  • information in the United States relates to the public's ability to access government records, meetings, and other information. In the United States,...
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    The term "government agency" or "administrative agency" usually applies to one of the independent agencies of the United States government, which exercise...
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    the United States picked up in 1987, when two educational and cultural exchange agencies were designated by the United States Information Agency (USIA)...
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    United Nations Specialized Agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the co-ordinating machinery of...
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  • Information Operations is a category of direct and indirect support operations for the United States Military. By definition in Joint Publication 3-13...
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  • The United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO or GPO), formerly the United States Government Printing Office, is an agency of the legislative branch...
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  • list of United States federal agencies that are primarily devoted to research and development, including their notable subdivisions. These agencies are responsible...
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    the United States Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on...
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    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting...
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