What does the United States Information Agency do? (in foreign relations)?
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USIA conducts international educational and cultural exchanges, broadcasting, and information programs.\n\nUSIA Mission:\nThe mission of USIA is to understand,inform, and influence foreign publics in promotion of the U.S. national interest, and to broaden the dialogue between Americans and U.S. institutions, and their counterparts abroad. Specifically, USIA works:\n- To explain and advocate U.S. policies in terms that are credible and meaningful in foreign cultures;\n- To provide information about the official policies of the United States, and about the people, values, and institutions which influence those policies;\n- To bring the benefits of international engagement to American citizens and institutions by helping them build strong long-term relationships with their counterparts overseas;\n- To advise the President and U.S. government policy-makers on the ways in which foreign attitudes will have a direct bearing on the effectiveness of U.S. policies.
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It's "d" (of course) but the name of the current Secretary of State is spelled Condoleezza Rice.  \n\n"Under the Constitution, the President of the United States determines U.S. foreign policy. The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States."
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No.  I work with MI6 and if anything, the Americans get more information from the British than the other way around.  The Americans focused so much on technical intelligence that they lost access to human resources.  They're rebuilding their human networks - with the British help.\n\nNo - this isn't classified - it's public record.
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How the heck would we know?  Does this government freely share information?
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Everything is monitored by the US government
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The President has a Secretary of State, Ambassadors in every American embassy around the world, and receives daily briefings from his staff to include intelligence that let him know items of interest from around the world.  The president's advisors, subject matter experts, and staff develop courses of action and recommendations, and the President, based on those courses of action and recommendations, makes decisions.  The CIA is a small piece of that.
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The myth is the Israeli diplomatic corp.  It depends on what you would call intelligence.  Electronic eavesdropping/weather reports/fog of war/code breaking and the like would probably belong to the NSA.  For human intelligence it would actually be the Chinese.  They seem to easily find people that would betray their country and the FBI is full of Chinese moles.  The KGB was also a master of human intelligence.
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CIA works internationally as well as nationally, it  also has a broader jurisdiction. FBI only works nationally and is more focused on specific people, where as CIA works on the organisations. i think CIA is mroe important
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what kind of information?
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Oil imports to the US and the direct and indirect impacts upon US politics.  (Lots of info available)\n\nPopulation trends in the world and regionally.  Especially Europe.\n(big Islamic trend) CIA source books are available a great source\n\nMoney invested in ground breaking research (nano tech for example) Lots of source material
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it is not a new discovery. UN have been a puppet in USA hands for long time now. UN is useless when the subject concerns USA.
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CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)   \n\nUnited States government agency that deals with national security issues
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Please check out the State department website.
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Here is the right answer:\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal criminal investigative and intelligence agency which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice. The mission of the FBI is to uphold the law through the investigation of violations of federal criminal law; to protect the United States from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities; to provide leadership and law enforcement assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies; and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the public and is faithful to the United States Constitution. The Bureau's motto is "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity."\n\nInformation obtained through an FBI investigation is presented to the appropriate U.S. Attorney or DOJ official, who decides if prosecution or other action is warranted. Top priority has been assigned to three areas: counterterrorism, foreign counterintelligence, and cyber crime.\n\nThe Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. A third function of the CIA is to act as the "hidden hand" of the government by engaging in "covert actions" at "the direction of the President."[1] It is this last function that has caused most of the controversies regarding the CIA over the years.\n\nThe CIA acts as the primary American provider of central intelligence estimates. It is believed to make use of the surveillance satellites of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the signal interception capabilities of the NSA, including the ECHELON system, the surveillance aircraft of the various branches of the U.S. armed forces and the analysts of the State Department and Department of Energy. At one point, the CIA even operated its own fleet of U-2 surveillance aircraft. The agency has also operated alongside regular military forces, and also employs a group of clandestine officers with paramilitary skills in its Special Activities Division. Micheal Spann, a CIA officer killed in November 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, was one such individual. The CIA also has strong links with other foreign intelligence agencies such as the UK's MI6 and Canada's CSIS.
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OMG, there are too many deparments and agencies to count! Just say there 15 executive departments-Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.\n\nThe official who represents the presient to the media is Press Secretary, now Tony Snow.\n\nWritten agreements with other countries are called treaties.
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The US government will tell the truth about contact with extraterrestrials when it actually happens.\nNow go put your tinfoil hat back on.
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The CIA maintains a site where you can find information about almost any country. Look here: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/