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Executive Order 8985

Establishing the Office of Censorship and Prescribing Its Functions and Duties

Signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Dec 19, 1941.

No later disposition on file
Signed recordDec 19, 1941

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Publication record6 FR 6625

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Later dispositionNo later disposition on file

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Later record

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See EO 9631, September 28, 1945

National Archives disposition tables cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.