Editing Committee on Public Information (section)

===Termination and disestablishment===
Committee work was curtailed after July 1, 1918. Domestic activities stopped after the [[Armistice]] was signed on November 11, 1918. Foreign operations ended June 30, 1919. Wilson abolished the CPI by executive order 3154 on August 21, 1919.

The Committee on Public Information was formally disestablished by an act of Congress on June 30, 1919, although the organization's work had been formally completed months before.<ref name=CreelIX>Creel, ''How We Advertised America,'' pg. ix.</ref> On August 21, 1919, the disbanded organization's records were turned over to the [[Council of National Defense]].<ref name=CreelIX />