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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 havepreviously 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.  0SS 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 tea 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