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-category: "Organization"
+category: "U.S. Government"
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   - Organization
   - PsychologicalWarfare

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/7th Psychological Operations Group.md

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-category: "Organization"
+category: "U.S. Government"
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   - Organization
   - PsychologicalWarfare

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/CIAA.md

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 The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) was a wartime US government agency created on August 16, 1940, by order of the [[Council of National Defense]] and placed under the direction of [[Nelson Rockefeller]]. Its official mandate was to promote hemispheric solidarity and counter Axis influence in [[Latin America]]; in practice it functioned as the first official US propaganda operation, a vehicle for expanding American corporate dominance in the hemisphere, and a testing ground for the psychological warfare and covert operations techniques that would be institutionalized in the postwar [[CIA]].[^1]
 
-The agency began as the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics (OCCCRBAR) and was formally placed within the Executive Office of the President by Executive Order 8840, signed July 30, 1941, by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. The office was renamed the Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA) by Executive Order 9532 on March 23, 1945, under incoming director [[Wallace Harrison]], and dissolved by Executive Order 9710 on April 10, 1946, effective May 20, 1946, when all remaining functions and subsidiary corporations were transferred to the [[State Department]].[^2]
+The agency began as the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics (OCCCRBAR) and was formally placed within the [[White House|Executive Office of the President]] by Executive Order 8840, signed July 30, 1941, by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. The office was renamed the Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA) by Executive Order 9532 on March 23, 1945, under incoming director [[Wallace Harrison]], and dissolved by Executive Order 9710 on April 10, 1946, effective May 20, 1946, when all remaining functions and subsidiary corporations were transferred to the [[State Department]].[^2]
 
 The CIAA spent approximately $140 million between 1940 and 1946, far beyond its initial $3.5 million authorization. By 1942 its annual budget had reached $38 million with 1,500 employees. The agency produced radio broadcasts throughout Latin America, subsidized press access to CIAA-controlled newsprint, produced newsreels, political cartoons, and films, and published the monthly magazine *En Guardia* (750,000 copies per issue at peak circulation). The operation was staffed by American corporate executives and coordinated with the Rockefeller family's business interests in the hemisphere.[^3]
 

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Southern Christian Leadership Conference.md

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   - FBI
   - COINTELPRO
   - 1960s
-category: "Civil Rights Organization"
+category: "Private Organization"
 summary: "The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was the civil rights organization founded in 1957 with Martin Luther King Jr. as president that coordinated the major nonviolent direct action campaigns of the 1960s - the Birmingham Campaign, the March on Washington, the Selma-to-Montgomery marches - while being subjected to systematic FBI surveillance and COINTELPRO disruption operations."
 start: 1957-01-10
 location: "Atlanta, Georgia"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/USARIBSS.md

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-category: "Organization"
+category: "U.S. Government"
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   - Organization
   - MilitaryPsychology