OWI and the Secret Ledger of German Social Decay
The blueprint for wartime propaganda stayed hidden in a series of reports on Germany, though the actual operations derived from them remain blacked out.
By Marcus Boone ·
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The Red Cross and the 1940s OSS Cover in China
Kept secret for decades, the US record groups humanitarian aid with espionage, exposing how the Red Cross served as a cloak for covert operations in China.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A Latin America Exception and the OWI's 1943 Propaganda Order
For decades, the record of the Office of War Information presented a clean face of recruitment posters while masking a clandestine channel for influence in Latin America.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Thirteen Issues of *Victory* and the War for Neutral Minds
For three years, the United States deployed a "slick" magazine to hijack the perceptions of foreigners, a program whose bureaucratic DNA survived the war to build the CIA's psychological war machine.
By Theo Marchetti ·