  It has been realised recently that there is no unique way to describe the
physical states of a given string theory. In particular, it has been shown that
any bosonic string theory can be embedded in a particular $N{=}1$ string
background in such a way that the spectrum and the amplitudes of both theories
agree. Similarly, it is also known that the amplitudes of any $N{=}1$ string
theory can be obtained from a particular $N{=}2$ string background. When
rephrased in the language of BRST cohomology, these results suggest a close
connection to the theory of induced representations. The purpose of this note
is to investigate this connection further and at the same time to reveal the
mechanism behind these embeddings between string theories. We will first
analyze the embedding of an affine algebra $\gghat$ in the $N{=}1$ affine
algebra associated to $\gg$. Given any BRST cohomology theory for $\gghat$ we
will be able to construct one for the $N{=}1$ affine algebra associated to
$\gg$ such that the cohomologies agree as operator product algebras. This is
proven in two different ways. This example is the simplest in its kind and, in
a sense that is made precise in the paper, all other similar embeddings are
deformations of this one. We conclude the paper with a brief treatment of the
general case, where we prove that for a particular class of ``good''
embeddings, the cohomologies are again isomorphic.
