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          OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
                    
               WASHINGTON
 
                              June 6, 1944
 
 
Brigadier General William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
Washington, D.C.
 
 
Dear General Donovan:
 
     As I have previously indicated, I want you to know that we heartily agree in principle with
all the points covered in your letter of May 5.  After very full consideration we felt that some of
the phraseology should be altered in order to avoid any possible misinterpretation by our staffs in
the field.  None of the proposed changes affect the basic points involved.
 
     Following is our recommended interpretation of the functions of the two organizations:
 
1.  OWI is responsible for the dissemination of official American propaganda.  All of this, of
course, clearly emanates from American sources outside enemy or enemy-occupied territory.
 
2.   OSS is responsible for the dissemination of propaganda which actually or ostensibly originates
within enemy or enemy-occupied territory, provided it is not readily traceable to an American
source.
 
3.   OSS will not install or opera to a black radio station outside of enemy or enemy-occupied
territory, without obtaining the prior concurrence of OWI.  OWI will maintain no agents or
installations in enemy or enemy-occupied territory.
 
4.  In order to avoid working at cross-purposes, it is the intention of OWI and OSS to inform the
other of any propaganda operations which might in any way affect the operations of the other.  It
is understood that OSS, under its military directives, may carry out propaganda in its field which
need not necessarily reflect official