The Press: Closed-for the Duration

The Office of Censorship shut up shop after three years, seven months, 27 days. Only the how-to-make-it facts about the atomic bomb remained on the secret list, and the Army was left to do its own censoring on that. Last big project of the Office of Censorship: a report on how its job should be done in the next war.

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