Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 2003. General Legal and Subject Files, ca. 1953 - ca. 1969.

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Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 2003. General Legal and Subject Files, ca. 1953 - ca. 1969.

1951-1969

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/46704021

This series consists of correspondence, memorandums, reports, legal correspondence, regulations, newspaper clippings, contracts, and sound recordings relating to the operations of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) Office of the General Counsel and legal matters of the USIA. Topics covered by these materials include the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM); Fred Schwarz's book, "You Can Trust the Communists (To Be Communists)" and other publications; coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the Voice of America (VOA); the Advisory Committee on Information; the Broadcast Advisory Committee; communications satellites and regulation thereof; WIGO (a voluntary association of German newspapers and people connected to the press and publishing); the construction of radio transmitters under the Baker East Project; Project Relay; the Adams Transmitter Project in Turkey; Freedom House's BOOKS USA program; media coverage of the civil rights movement; Consolidated Book Publishers; artwork; the James Monroe Bicentennial Celebration; and the American National Exhibition in Moscow. This series also includes personnel records, such as requests for exceptions to Domestic Circular No. 43 and a file on summer employment. There are also personal files in this series from USIA Director Edward R. Murrow and Deputy USIA General Counsel Aley Allan.

9 linear feet, 5 linear inches

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Murrow, Edward R. (Edward Roscoe), 1908-1965

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