The Department of Public Knowledge and Diversions was a department of the Federal Bureau of Control, active in its early years of operation, which dealt with communications to public bodies.
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Active under the leadership of William S. Powers at least before the Bureau's discovery of the Oldest House, the Department of Public Knowledge and Diversions was responsible for handling all communications with the public, providing cover stories for Bureau operations, Altered Items, and Altered World Events. It aimed to offer "sufficient yet vague rationale" in order to support public belief in a stable and certain world.[1]
Originally less powerful, it attained its full role in 1954 after Powers submitted a complaint and requested that his department handle all future outside communications in response to the Bureau's faulty explanation for the Fan Altered Item.[1] He was successful, as by 1958 the Department of Public Knowledge and Diversions was involved in covering up the cause of the Meteor Hill AWE, claiming it was due to debris from faulty Russian satellites.[2]
The department appears to have been later replaced by or renamed to the Communications Department by as early as 1978,[3] as the new department fulfilled the same duties.
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