During
World War II the
United States Office of War Information (OWI) launched a large-scale information and propaganda campaign both at home and abroad through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, but
psychological warfare operations had been run by special military units. After the end of the war President
Truman transferred the operations of the OWI as well as control over
Voice of America overseas radio network to the Interim International Information Service (IIS) within the State Department. The State Department, eager to assert leadership in this area, organized a civilian-sponsored project on new methods and approaches to
Cold War propaganda, code-named Project Troy. Convened in October 1950 at the State Department's request, it brought together for a period of almost three months a group of twenty-one distinguished scientists, social scientists, and historians, most of whom were academics. It can be assumed that the Truman administration tried to implement plans established by the Project Troy in the project
Overload and Delay. The purpose of the latter was to break the
Stalinist system by increasing the number of input points in the system and by creating complex and unpredictable situations requiring action. == Memorandum on the Troy Report ==