CIA/International Operations Division guidance for Radio Free Europe at the outset of the Hungarian Revolution calls for extensive use of President Eisenhower’s September 23 statement on maintaining the spirit of freedom and for caution in pre-judging Imre Nagy.
August 7, 1956
Agreed Policy Governing Radio Free Europe Operations
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CIA and Free Europe Committee (FEC) restate policy for Radio Free Europe in the context of the 1956 upheaval in the Communist world.
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- Communism--Czechoslovakia--Public opinion
- Poland--History--Uprising, 1956
- Anti-communist movements
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Yugoslavia
- Soviet Union--Foreign policy
- Radio Free Europe
- Poland--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
- Czechoslovakia--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
- United States--Foreign policy
- Propaganda, Anti-communist
- Free Europe Committee
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Obtained and contributed to CWIHP by A. Ross Johnson. Cited in his book Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, CIA mandatory declassification review document number MORI 1409009.
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2012-07-20
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Policy Guidelines
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Blavatnik Family Foundation and Leon Levy Foundation