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We derive characterizations of CC capacity and we show their equivalence to extremum problems of maximizing the information theoretic measure of directed information from the input process to the output process of the DM over randomized strategies. Due to the generality of the DMs, the CC capacity is shown to be equivalent to partially observable Markov decision problems, contrary to the DMs in the above mentioned paper, which give rise to fully observable Markov decision problems. Subsequently, the CC capacity is transformed, using nonlinear filtering theory, to fully observable Markov decision problems. For the application example of a Gaussian DM with past dependence on inputs and outputs, we prove a decentralized separation principle that states optimal inputs are Gaussian and consist of (i) a control, (ii) an estimation, and (iii) an information transmission part, which interact in a specific order. 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