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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) was a wartime US
The agency began as the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics (OCCCRBAR) and was formally placed within the [[White House|Executive Office of the President]] by Executive Order 8840, signed July 30, 1941, by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. The office was renamed the Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA) by Executive Order 9532 on March 23, 1945, under incoming director [[Wallace Harrison]], and dissolved by Executive Order 9710 on April 10, 1946, effective May 20, 1946, when all remaining functions and subsidiary corporations were transferred to the [[State Department]].[^2]
The CIAA spent approximately $140 million between 1940 and 1946, far beyond its initial $3.5 million authorization. By 1942 its annual budget had reached $38 million with 1,500 employees. The agency produced radio broadcasts throughout Latin America, subsidized press access to CIAA-controlled newsprint, produced newsreels, political cartoons, and films, and published the monthly magazine *En Guardia* (750,000 copies per issue at peak circulation). The operation was staffed by American corporate executives and coordinated with the Rockefeller family's business interests in the hemisphere.[^3]
The CIAA spent approximately $140 million between 1940 and 1946, far beyond its initial $3.5 million authorization. By 1942 its annual budget had reached $38 million with 1,500 employees. The agency produced radio broadcasts throughout Latin America, subsidized press access to CIAA-controlled newsprint, produced newsreels, political cartoons, and films, and published the monthly magazine *En Guardia* (750,000 copies per issue at peak circulation). The operation was staffed by American corporate executives and coordinated with the [[Rockefeller family]]'s business interests in the hemisphere.[^3]
CIAA records from 1937 to 1951 are held at the [[National Archives and Records Administration]] as Record Group 229 (Records of the Office of Inter-American Affairs), totaling 812 cubic feet including 45 reels of motion picture film, 24 sound recordings of radio broadcasts, 3,386 still photographs, 79 posters and drawings, and 55 maps of South American locations.[^4]