#PropagandaAnalysis

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Ernst Kris Viennese art historian and psychoanalyst who built the BBC's analysis of German radio in 1939 and 1940 and co-directed the New School's Research Project on Totalitarian Communication.
Hans Speier German-American sociologist who analyzed Nazi radio at the New School, ran German analysis at the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, and from 1948 to 1960 directed the Social Science Division of the RAND Corporation.

Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service The Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service was the United States government's radio monitoring and analysis service, created inside the Federal Communications Commission in 1941 and whose expertise was carried into the Open Source Center in 2005.
Office of War Information The Office of War Information was the federal propaganda and information agency created by Executive Order 9182 in June 1942 and abolished in December 1945, its foreign functions passing to the State Department.

Research Project on Totalitarian Communication Rockefeller-funded wartime study of Nazi radio propaganda at the New School's Graduate Faculty, run by Ernst Kris and Hans Speier from April 1941 with BBC monitoring material, whose papers went to Washington, London and Ottawa.