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Among its first adventures was dropping cakes of soap from planes on North Africans along with a picture book called "The Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt," with a pin button of a picture of Roosevelt painted to make FDR look like an Arab.

Among its first adventures was dropping cakes of soap from planes on North Africans along with a picture book called "The Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt," with a pin button of a picture of Roosevelt painted to make FDR look like an Arab.

In preparation for Roosevelt’s fourth term campaign it printed a volume called "Handbook of the United States,” <ref> Phelps Adams in New York Sun, April 17, 1944. See also editorial in New York Daily News, April 19, 1944.</ref> and gave the jobs to a British firm to publish. The history covered the story from Leif Ericson's discovery up to 1932 in four and one-half pages; the remainder of the volume was devoted to Franklin Roosevelt and his [[New Deal]]. This was during the [[Presidential election of 1944]] when England was full of American soldiers able to vote.

In preparation for Roosevelt’s fourth term campaign it printed a volume called "Handbook of the United States,” <ref>Phelps Adams in New York Sun, April 17, 1944. See also editorial in New York Daily News, April 19, 1944.</ref> and gave the jobs to a British firm to publish. The history covered the story from Leif Ericson's discovery up to 1932 in four and one-half pages; the remainder of the volume was devoted to Franklin Roosevelt and his [[New Deal]]. This was during the [[Presidential election of 1944]] when England was full of American soldiers able to vote.

The FCC and OWI took charge of radio station WHOM in New York and other foreign language stations throughout the country without cause.

The FCC and OWI took charge of radio station WHOM in New York and other foreign language stations throughout the country without cause.

On commentator observed,

On commentator observed,

{{Cquote|In the presence of a government which had enlarged its power over the lives and the thoughts and opinions of citizens and which did not hesitate to use that power, the whole citizenry was intimidated. Editors, writers, commentators were intimidated. Men whose opinions did not conform to the reigning philosophy were driven from the air, from magazines and newspapers. While American citizens who were moved by a deep and unselfish devotion to the ideals of this Republic ­ however wrong­headed that may be in the light of the new modes of "freedom" ­ were forced into silence, the most blatant and disruptive revolutionary lovers of the systems of both fascism and Communism and that illegitimate offspring of both -­ Red fascism ­- were lording it over our minds. <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 8,[http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Eight___The_Thought_Poli.htm ''The Thought Police''].</ref>}}

{{Cquote|In the presence of a government which had enlarged its power over the lives and the thoughts and opinions of citizens and which did not hesitate to use that power, the whole citizenry was intimidated. Editors, writers, commentators were intimidated. Men whose opinions did not conform to the reigning philosophy were driven from the air, from magazines and newspapers. While American citizens who were moved by a deep and unselfish devotion to the ideals of this Republic ­ however wrong­headed that may be in the light of the new modes of "freedom" ­ were forced into silence, the most blatant and disruptive revolutionary lovers of the systems of both fascism and Communism and that illegitimate offspring of both -­ Red fascism ­- were lording it over our minds.<ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 8,[http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Eight___The_Thought_Poli.htm ''The Thought Police''].</ref>}}

==Congressional concerns==

==Congressional concerns==

:"Persons are being accused of being pro-fascist, and that without proof and without trial. Persons suspected of being pro-fascist, and without proof, have been removed from the air and replaced by wearers of the Black Shirt ...  

:"Persons are being accused of being pro-fascist, and that without proof and without trial. Persons suspected of being pro-fascist, and without proof, have been removed from the air and replaced by wearers of the Black Shirt ...  

:"If the radio can thus be controlled in August, 1943, there is nothing to prevent the same control from slanting our political news and nothing to prevent the coloring of our war aims and purposes when peace comes.” <ref> Hearings before Select Committee (House) to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, 1943.</ref>

:"If the radio can thus be controlled in August, 1943, there is nothing to prevent the same control from slanting our political news and nothing to prevent the coloring of our war aims and purposes when peace comes.” <ref>Hearings before Select Committee (House) to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, 1943.</ref>

==Personal==

==Personal==

==Subversion==

==Subversion==

When, on June 15 1943, [[Owen Lattimore]] instructed [[Joseph Barnes]]<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791284,00.html ''Tongue-Tied''], [[Time magazine]], Feb. 07, 1944.</ref> to replace the non-Communist Chinese of the Office of War Information (OWI) with Communists, OWI did so. On July 14 [[Thomas A. Bisson]], in the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] publication, ''Far Eastern Survey'', referred to Maoist forces as the "democratic China."  The [[disinformation]] was widely repeated among journalists and academics.  In July and August 1943, the Chinese Communist forces -- in the midst of the war -- joined with the Japanese armies to inflict a serious defeat on the [[Kuomintang]] troops allied with the United States. <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Claxton Printers, 1953, pg. 36.</ref> It was made to appear that the Communists wanted unity to fight Japan but that Chiang Kai-shek was only interested in fighting his own people.<ref>''While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn,  New York : The Devin-Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 152] pdf.</ref>

When, on June 15, 1943, [[Owen Lattimore]] instructed [[Joseph Barnes]]<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791284,00.html ''Tongue-Tied''], [[Time magazine]], Feb. 07, 1944.</ref> to replace the non-Communist Chinese of the Office of War Information (OWI) with Communists, OWI did so. On July 14 [[Thomas A. Bisson]], in the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] publication, ''Far Eastern Survey'', referred to Maoist forces as the "democratic China."  The [[disinformation]] was widely repeated among journalists and academics.  In July and August 1943, the Chinese Communist forces—in the midst of the war—joined with the Japanese armies to inflict a serious defeat on the [[Kuomintang]] troops allied with the United States.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Claxton Printers, 1953, pg. 36.</ref> It was made to appear that the Communists wanted unity to fight Japan but that Chiang Kai-shek was only interested in fighting his own people.<ref>''While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn,  New York : The Devin-Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 152] pdf.</ref>

While Romania was frantically imploring the West for assistance during the Soviet invasion, OWI praised the Soviet Unions’ "new democracy" and the "innocent nature of Communism." <ref>Reuben M. Markham, ''Rumania Under the Soviet Yoke'' (Boston: Meader, 1949), p.

While Romania was frantically imploring the West for assistance during the Soviet invasion, OWI praised the Soviet Unions’ "new democracy" and the "innocent nature of Communism." <ref>Reuben M. Markham, ''Rumania Under the Soviet Yoke'' (Boston: Meader, 1949), p.

Soviet spies  [[Philip Keeney]], [[Irving Lerner]], [[Peter Rhodes]], [[Christina Krotkova]] and  [[Flora Wovschin]] were employed within OWI during its lifetime.

Soviet spies  [[Philip Keeney]], [[Irving Lerner]], [[Peter Rhodes]], [[Christina Krotkova]] and  [[Flora Wovschin]] were employed within OWI during its lifetime.

OWI's broadcasts to Poland ended not with the Polish national anthem but with a song adopted by the Polish émigrés in Moscow who were known as Stalin's "[[Polish People's Army|Committee of Liberation]]." The expert in charge of the Polish section was actually born in Poland, but left there and spent the rest of his life in France as a Communist. He fraternized with the [[Vichy government]] during the [[Hitler-Stalin rapprochement]], but when Hitler invaded Russia he came to America and quickly became OWI's expert. <ref> Congressional Record, 78th Congress, 1st Session, Vol. 89, Part 13, pps. 5999, 6000.</ref>

OWI's broadcasts to Poland ended not with the Polish national anthem but with a song adopted by the Polish émigrés in Moscow who were known as Stalin's "[[Polish People's Army|Committee of Liberation]]." The expert in charge of the Polish section was actually born in Poland, but left there and spent the rest of his life in France as a Communist. He fraternized with the [[Vichy government]] during the [[Hitler-Stalin rapprochement]], but when Hitler invaded Russia he came to America and quickly became OWI's expert.<ref>Congressional Record, 78th Congress, 1st Session, Vol. 89, Part 13, pps. 5999, 6000.</ref>

[[Louis Adamic]] <ref>Louis Adamic, ''Dinner at the White House'', (Harper, 1946).</ref> had access to [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] and had a very intimate association with the Office of War Information.

[[Louis Adamic]] <ref>Louis Adamic, ''Dinner at the White House'', (Harper, 1946).</ref> had access to [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] and had a very intimate association with the Office of War Information.

*[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html Images from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection] (Library of Congress)

*[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html Images from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection] (Library of Congress)

*[http://www.hrw.com/si/social/si_1914/si_ww2posters/victory5.htm War Aims Through Art] (posters)

*[http://www.hrw.com/si/social/si_1914/si_ww2posters/victory5.htm War Aims Through Art] (posters)

*[http://www.archives.gov/publications/finding_aids/holocaust_era_assets/civilian_agency_records_part_3.html#RG208| National Archives and Records Administration]

*[http://www.archives.gov/publications/finding_aids/holocaust_era_assets/civilian_agency_records_part_3.html#RG208 National Archives and Records Administration]

* FBI Silvermaster file, [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster046.pdf Vol. 46, pg. 93] pdf, May 17, 1946. Statement by surveillance subject that only “[[Progressivism|progressives]]” were to be hired by [[UNRRA]] in China, plus discussion of hiring at OWI, indicating to FBI that subject and associates were “active in placing Communists in government jobs in Washington and elsewhere.”

* FBI Silvermaster file, [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster046.pdf Vol. 46, pg. 93] pdf, May 17, 1946. Statement by surveillance subject that only “[[Progressivism|progressives]]” were to be hired by [[UNRRA]] in China, plus discussion of hiring at OWI, indicating to FBI that subject and associates were “active in placing Communists in government jobs in Washington and elsewhere.”

*''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 8,[http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Eight___The_Thought_Poli.htm ''The Thought Police''].

*''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 8,[http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Eight___The_Thought_Poli.htm ''The Thought Police''].