#PsychologicalStrategyBoard

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Harry S. Truman 33rd U.S. President who recognized Israel on May 14, 1948, approved the National Security Act of 1947 that created the Central Intelligence Agency, and relieved General Douglas MacArthur in April 1951.
Max Millikan MIT economist, member of the Project Troy study group, assistant director of the CIA's Office of Research and Reports in 1951, and first director of MIT's Center for International Studies from 1952 to 1969.

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.
Psychological Strategy Board The Psychological Strategy Board, created by Truman's directive of April 4, 1951, coordinated national psychological operations until Executive Order 10483 abolished it on September 2, 1953.

Project Troy Project Troy was a 1950-51 MIT study of Soviet jamming and political warfare, reporting to the Secretary of State, whose February 1951 report proposed radio, balloon and elite-directed campaigns behind the Iron Curtain.