This text examines the principles and beliefs that guided American propaganda operations during the Cold War and relates them to the dilemmas that currently face American information policy. It summarises a study that involved interviews with agency executives and operatives.

This reassessment of the Cold War premises of American Propaganda brings the original 1954 study up to date and places it into historical context. The book is a careful examination of the principles and beliefs that have guided American propaganda operations including the dilemmas that currently face American information policy. It summarizes an empirical study based on extensive interviews of the agency's executives and operatives that is updated by the new interviews reflected in this edition, and that helps USIA guide and plan its own research and improve its operations.