CHART OF PROPAGANDA ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II (1942-1945)
Office of
War Information
PRESIDENT
Joint Chiefs of Staff
State
Department
War
Navy
Department* Department
Office of Strategic
Services
advice
Domestic Overseas
Branch
Branch
control
control
assistance
New York
San Francisco.
Office (for
Office (for
Pacific and
supply and
guidance
Asia)
Europe and
Outposts)
Information Outposts
(under embassy, legation
or consulate when outside
military jurisdiction; in
neutral and Allied territory)
Theater Psychological
Warfare Branches
(names varied)
Combat
Propaganda
(zones of
operation)
Information
Control (in
occupied
areas)
* The War Department agency was the Psychological Warfare Branch, 1941-42; liaison officers, 1943;
Propaganda Branch, G-2, 1943-45.
Not shown on the chart are the consultative relationships established between OWI headquarters, Wash-
ington, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whereby liaison officers from the War and Navy Departments kept
in appropriate relationship to OWI in preparing psychological warfare plans and guidances.
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