ORDER 'DESIGNATING A COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200100012-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 11, 1941
• Content Type: REGULATION

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MAURO A. COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION "
virtue of the authority vested in Me as President of the
United States and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the
United States, it is ordered as follows"
1. There is hereby established the position of Coordinator of
Information, with authority to collect and analyze all information and
data which may bear upon -national security; to correlate such informs.
tion and data, and to make such information and data available to the
President and to such departments and officials of the Government as
the President nay determine and to carry out, when requested by the
President, am% supplementary activities as may facilitate the securing
f information important for national security not now available to
2 The several departments and agencies of the government shall
make available be the Coordinator of Information all. and any such informs-.
tion and data relating to national security as the Coordinator, with
the approval of the President, may frost time to time request.
3. The Coordinator of Information may appoint such committees,
MI sting of appropriate representatives of the various departments
and agencies of the Government, as he may deem necessary to assist him
in the performance of his functions.
4. Nothing in the duties and responsibilities f the Coordinator
of Information shall in any way interfere with or impair the duties and
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as CommandOr_in Chief of the Army and Navy.
Within the limits of suoh funds as may be allocated to
the Coordinator of Information by the President, the Coordinator may
employ necessaxi personnel and make provision for the necessary supplies,
faellitiee, and services.
6. William J. Donovan is hereby designated as Coordinator of
Information.
(Signed) Franklin D. Roosevelt
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