Glossy photographs and staff reminiscences are being used to bury decades of information warfare as the USIA prepares for its final absorption into the State Department.
Listeners were led to believe Radio Free Europe was a private venture while the state funded nearly all of its $15 million budget and spent five million on unattributed activities.
Secret instructions tasked a presidential committee with coordinating biological warfare, space policy, and the aftermath of Francis Gary Powers' shoot-down.
Communist forces and the general population were targeted to foster war weariness and discouragement, aiming to sever the cohesion between the regime and its people.