Information control during WW2 was a lot stricter than during the Cold War. During WW2, the US government had an official "Office of Censorship". It had the le

Information control during WW2 was a lot stricter than during the Cold War. During WW2, the US government had an official "Office of Censorship". It had the legal authority to censor all communications between the US and its territories and the rest of the world. While it didn't have any formal legal authority to censor communications within the US, the mainstream US media voluntarily committed to cooperate with it. On 15 November 1945, three months to the day after the end of the war, the office was formally abolished; those last three months of its existence were mainly devoted to winding up its operations. During the Cold War, the US had no equivalent.