The War Department participation in the control and planning of psychological warfare is shown by Chart VII, which represents the situation as of 1945. The Propaganda Branch, attached to G-2 as a staff agency and not to Military Intelligence Service as an operating agency, served to carry out the psychological warfare functions of the War Department.[37] The Chief of the Branch represented the Joint Chiefs of Staff at OWI meetings, along with his Navy confrère; he took care of official messages to the Theaters pertaining to psychological warfare matters, and his office itself performed a few limited functions. (One of these functions required the author to get up at four-thirty mornings in order to digest the overnight intake of enemy propaganda. He was joined in this by Teheran-born, Columbia-trained Edward K. Merat. It was with real relief that he saw the Nazi stations go off the air. He was then able to pass the early-bird business to his Persian colleague.) The Branch also made up propanal studies whenever these were warrantable at the General Staff level. The Deputy Chief (Air) was the vestigial remnant of a short-lived Army Air Forces propaganda establishment; he had direct access to the air staff, and took care of things having a peculiarly air character. (The abbreviations under Theaters are explained below, on page 187, since Theater nomenclature for psychological warfare was never standardized.) [Illustration: _Chart VII_ +--------------+ +----------------+ | JOINT CHIEFS +------------------------------------+ CHIEF OF STAFF | | OF STAFF | +--------+-------+ +------+-------+ | | +-----------+ | | | CG 20TH | | +- - - - -+ AIR FORCE +- - - - + +-----------------+ | +-----------+ | | | | | | | | | | +------+-----+ +-------+----+----+ +----+--------+ | JOINT STAFF| | HEADQUARTERS | | A. C. OF S. | | PLANNERS | | ARMY AIR FORCES | | G-2 | +------+-----+ +---------+-------+ +----+--------+ | | | +------+--------------------------------+--------------------+---------+ | PROPAGANDA BRANCH | | ARMY MEMBER OF | | JCS LIAISON WITH DEPUTY CHIEF OF BRANCH | | OWI, CIAA (CHIEF CHIEF (USING OPD AND | | OF BRANCH) (AIR) OTHER WD CHANNELS)|