In 1941, there was an office called the Office of the Coordinator Of Information, this was an intelligence and propaganda agency of the United States government founded on July 11th, 1941, this agency was the predecessor of the Office of Strategic services, which would later be formed in 1942. Coordinator of Information was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, due to the United States involvement in World War Two. This agency was intended to overcome the lack of coordination between existing agencies which, in part, did it by duplicating some of their functions.
Roosevelt had been persuaded to make the office months before the United States entered World War Two, by prominent New York Lawyer, William J, Donovan, who was dispatched to London by the president to assess the ability of the British to continue the fighting after Germany took over France.
