Exhibit 997 ยท Agency report
Complete Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Public Information, 1917: 1918: 1919
We did not call it "propaganda," for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with lies and corruptions.
Creel's report to the President. Counts 76,000 Four Minute speakers and 755,190 speeches; says the Division of News became the sole medium for issuing official war information; says the Committee supervised voluntary censorship of the press and issued an official daily newspaper. Says the Committee did not call its work propaganda. Report dates the creating executive order 14 April 1917.
- Source
- Committee on Public Information (George Creel); Government Printing Office
- Date
- 1 June 1919 (GPO 1920)
- Quoted from
- Report letter, p. 1
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/completereportof00unit
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Quote read in the archive.org OCR text; hyphenation at line break removed ('corrup- tions'). Other figures: Four Minute Men, p. 3; Division of News, 'sole medium for the issuance of official war information'. The report also says: 'Our work was educational and informative only.' It states that of 6,000 releases only three were questioned as to accuracy, and inquiry upheld two of these.