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Government Censorship and Public Influence Efforts in the U.S., 1917 - Present
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![Recently declassified records outline the psychological warfare aspect of D-Day](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/06/06/DDayCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Recently declassified records outline the psychological warfare aspect of D-Day
Formerly TOP SECRET records in Central Intelligence Agency’s archives, only declassified in 2013, outline the Office of Strategic Services plan to wage psychological warfare against Nazi Germany ahead of the D-Day invasion.
![The FBI feared that "Seven Days in May" was bad for America](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/03/18/SevenDaysCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The FBI feared that “Seven Days in May” was bad for America
A memo uncovered in Ronald Reagan’s Federal Bureau of Investigation file reveals the FBI’s concerns that the 1964 film “Seven Days in May,” which depicted an aborted military coup of the U.S. government, would be used as Communist propaganda - and was therefore “harmful to our Armed Forces and Nation.”
![$1 million in Virginia public funding sponsored "Lost Cause" film in 2013](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/02/10/FOLS.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
$1 million in Virginia public funding sponsored “Lost Cause” film in 2013
Before Virginia Military Institute cadets were photographed in blackface in yearbooks, they fought to preserve slavery during the Civil War in the Battle of New Market. The 2015 film Field of Lost Shoes - produced with $1 million in Virginia public funds - chronicles that battle.
![Ronald Reagan couldn't get J. Edgar Hoover to guest star on "General Electric Theater"](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/09/20/GEcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Ronald Reagan couldn’t get J. Edgar Hoover to guest star on “General Electric Theater”
Last week, we took our first look into Ronald Reagan’s recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation file and how it documented the close personal friendship between Reagan and Director J. Edgar Hoover. However, a section of the file from a decade earlier reveals a much less auspicious first encounter between the Gipper and the G-Man, with Hoover repeatedly turning down a starstruck Reagan’s offer to guest star on General Electric Theater.
![The CIA and "Uncle Louie"](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/09/18/ml.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The CIA and “Uncle Louie”
Mykola Lebed was sentenced to death in Poland in 1934. He died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1998.
By various accounts, he was an assassin, a freedom fighter, a terrorist, a hero, a villain, a prisoner, a refugee, a Nazi collaborator, a Nazi target, a writer, and a war criminal. To the Central Intelligence Agency, which bankrolled his activities for close to half a century, he was known as “Uncle Louie.”
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