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Senate House, the Ministry of Information headquarters in London during World War II. The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War. [1]
The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II.The OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, the OWI was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communit
The special reports conducted by Home Intelligence after 1941 were used by the Ministry of Information to plan and assess publicity campaigns. Over 60 reports were undertaken on campaigns including "Careless Talk Costs Lives" and Paper Salvage. [9] Home Intelligence reports are now used as a primary source by historians researching the "Home ...
The Press Bureau did eventually in 1918 formulate guidelines for handling information in wartime, which were later used in 1938 in creating the Second World War Ministry of Information. Some forms of wartime censorship continued until 1920, by when the AWOPC became again the main interface for political/press publication of defence and secret ...
The story of British cinema in the Second World War is inextricably linked with that of the Ministry of Information. [1] Formed on 4 September 1939, the day after Britain's declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War.
Merged into MI16 after World War II MI11: Military Security. Disbanded at the end of WWII MI12 Liaison with censorship organisations in Ministry of Information, military censorship. MI13 (Not used) MI14: Germany and German-occupied territories (aerial photography). Operated until spring 1943 MI15: Aerial photography.
Brendan Rendall Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken (15 February 1901 – 8 August 1958), was an Irish-born businessman, politician and a Minister of Information and First Lord of the Admiralty in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet. He is best remembered for supporting Churchill during his whole political career.
As a branch of military intelligence, paperwork was routinely destroyed to maintain strict security. A further large-scale destruction of papers was organised when MI7 was closed down at the end of WWI. A few important files are scattered amongst War Office, Foreign Office and Ministry of Information records at the British National Archives ...