[PDF] Radio Free Europe And Radio Liberty eBook

Author : A. Ross Johnson
Publisher : Cold War International History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804773560

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An examination of the workings of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty during the period in which the two broadcast organizations were covertly supported by the CIA.

Author : Arch Puddington
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0813182654

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Among America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American perspective on global events, RFE-RL served as surrogate home radio services and a vital alternative to the controlled, party-dominated domestic press in Eastern Europe. Over twenty stations featured programming tailored to individual countries. They reached millions of listeners ranging from industrial workers to dissident leaders such as Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel. Broadcasting Freedom draws on rare archival material and offers a penetrating insider history of the radios that helped change the face of Europe. Arch Puddington reveals new information about the connections between RFE-RL and the CIA, which provided covert funding for the stations during the critical start-up years in the early 1950s. He relates in detail the efforts of Soviet and Eastern Bloc officials to thwart the stations; their tactics ranged from jamming attempts, assassinations of radio journalists, the infiltration of spies onto the radios' staffs, and the bombing of the radios' headquarters. Puddington addresses the controversies that engulfed the stations throughout the Cold War, most notably RFE broadcasts during the Hungarian Revolution that were described as inflammatory and irresponsible. He shows how RFE prevented the Communist authorities from establishing a monopoly on the dissemination of information in Poland and describes the crucial roles played by the stations as the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union broke apart. Broadcasting Freedom is also a portrait of the Cold War in America. Puddington offers insights into the strategic thinking of the RFE-RL leadership and those in the highest circles of American government, including CIA directors, secretaries of state, and even presidents.

Author : A. Ross Johnson
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 6155211906

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The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.

Author : Richard H. Cummings
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786462078

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From 1950 to 1960, millions of Americans participated in Radio Free Europe's "Crusade for Freedom." They signed "Freedom Scrolls" and "Freedom Grams," attended Crusader meetings, marched in parades, launched leaflet-carrying balloons, and donated Truth Dollars in support of the American effort to broadcast news and other programming to the peoples of communist-governed European countries. The Crusade for Freedom proved to be a powerful tool of the state-private network's anti-communist agenda. This book takes an in-depth look at the Crusade for Freedom, revealing how its unmatched pageantry of patriotism led to the creation of a dynamic movement involving not only the government but also private industry, mass media, academia, religious leaders, and average Americans.

Author : Sig Mickelson
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780275917227

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Mickelson combines thorough research with a suspenseful narrative to reveal many little-known facts about the international politics and intelligence community background of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.

Author : Paweł Machcewicz
Publisher : Cold War International History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804792387

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"For the Soviet bloc, the struggle against foreign radio was one of the principal fronts in the Cold War. Poland's War on Radio Free Europe, 1950-1989 tells how Poland conducted this fight, a key part of the wider effort "to control the flow of information and ideas, which largely determined the Communist regimes' ability to command their societies and to meet their political and ideological goals, " according to Paweł Machcewicz. This is the first book in English to use the unique documents of Communist foreign intelligence operations so widely, and it also employs propaganda materials and personal interviews with Radio Free Europe people and with party and security functionaries. The English translation reflects further discoveries of documentation since the original publication in Polish in 2007." -- Publisher's description.