William S. Powers

William S. Powers was the Head of the Department of Public Knowledge and Diversions for the Federal Bureau of Control in the early years of the Bureau's operations.
==Biography==
Powers served as the head of the Department of Public Knowledge and Diversions at least in the period before the Bureau had discovered the Oldest House. In 1954, he sent a formal interdepartmental complaint over the Bureau's response to the discovery of the Fan Altered Item, stressing the need for "sufficient yet vague rationale" when providing cover stories to local authorities, unlike the unfounded "fan death" explanation that on-site investigators had given. Powers concluded that his department should handle all public communications to avoid repeating such incidents and to provide the proper control needed with new forms of technology greatly increasing the spread of news.Fan Supplement This was successful, as by 1958 his department was responsible for handling cover stories for Altered World Events such as the Meteor Hill AWE.Meteor Hill Supplement
Powers' status is unknown, but it can be assumed that he is resigned or otherwise no longer in his role as department head, as by 2019 the Communications Department has succeeded the Department of Public Knowledge and Diversions, and Alberto Tommasi acted as its last formal department head before the Hiss invasion.
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