According to the BBG website:

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is a networked global media agency. The five media organizations that comprise the BBG complement and reinforce one another in a shared mission vital to U.S. national interests: to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. Together, the BBG media organizations communicate each week with more than 278 million people across the globe.

In June of 2017, I requested a copy of the main pages to the BBG’s “employee only” intranet website.

In August of 2017, the BBG released a CD-ROM with various images/screen shots of their intranet site. I have organized them below in galleries, and sorted them according to the folders they were in.  For reference, this was released in FOIA Case #17-055.

Document Archive

Root of CD-ROM

News and Events

Online Services

This directory was on the CD-ROM, but empty.

Our Agency

VOA

Workplace Resources

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Voice of America (VOA) provides trusted and objective news and information in 45 languages to a measured weekly audience of more than 236.6 million people around the world.  For nearly 75 years, VOA journalists have told American stories and supplied content that many people cannot get locally: objective news and information about the US, their region and the world.  VOA uses the devices and platforms target markets use to connect audiences on five continents with the people, thoughts and institutions that make America unique.

Behind the scenes, VOA maintains a small list of prewritten obituaries, for politicians and world leaders that are still alive.

I have attempted to retrieve the obituaries themselves, however they are denied as being labeled “draft” documents, and therefore not subject to the FOIA. On January 26, 2017, I appealed this decision and am currently awaiting their response. This page will be updated when available.

Despite that, below, you will find the lists released.

Declassified Documents

 Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Voice of America (VOA) Pre-Written Obituary List, released January 2017 [3 Pages, 1.0MB]

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/bbg/BBG-ObitList-012017.pdf

Older Releases

 Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Voice of America (VOA) Pre-Written Obituary List, released May 2016 [2 Pages, 0.9MB]

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/bbg/bbg-obits-may2016.pdf

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