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Exhibit 998

Executive Order 9182, Consolidating Certain War Information Functions Into an Office of War Information

Exhibit 998 ยท Executive order

Executive Order 9182, Consolidating Certain War Information Functions Into an Office of War Information

Formulate and carry out, through the use of press, radio, motion picture, and other facilities, information programs designed to facilitate the development of an informed and intelligent understanding, at home and abroad, of the status and progress of the war effort and of the war policies, activities, and aims of the Government.

Creates OWI in the Office for Emergency Management by consolidating the Office of Facts and Figures, the Office of Government Reports and the foreign information functions of the Coordinator of Information. The Director may issue directives binding on departments, require clearance of programs and releases, and require curtailment of information services.

Source
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date
13 June 1942
Quoted from
Sec. 4(a)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-9182-consolidating-certain-war-information-functions-into-office-war
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Finding INF-2.2
Primary record Executive Order 9182 of 13 June 1942 created the Office of War Information to run information programs "at home and abroad," and Congress on 12 July 1943 limited its Domestic Operations Branch to $2,750,000 of $33,222,504 and barred it from publishing literature for distribution to the public within the United States.