T.C. Streibert, Ex-Head of USIA, Dies
Theodore C. Streibert, a veteran broadcast executive who was President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s choice as founding director of the U.S. Information Agency, is dead at 87.
Streibert died Sunday at his home in Laurel Hollow, Syosset, Long Island, New York.
From 1953, when USIA was created out of the old Office of War Information, until 1957 Streibert headed all of the government’s overseas information services including the Voice of America, a radio arm used widely to voice anti-Soviet propaganda at the height of the Cold War.
He first went to the Eisenhower Administration as a consultant on public affairs after years as an executive with RKO Radio Pictures, the Pathe Film Exchange and with 50,000-watt WOR in New York City. He also was a founder of the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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