In Prague Embassy Dispatch No. 3079, Ambassador Jacob Beam urges the US Radios to provide factual reporting and neither encourage nor discourage Czechoslovak youth opposed to the invasion
August 22, 1968
CIA-State Consultations on Czechoslovak Crisis
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Consulted by Cord Meyer, Deputy Undersecretary of State Charles Bohlen approves RFE’s cautious approach to covering the Soviet invasion and also agrees to use of RL transmitters to reach Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia
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Obtained and contributed to CWIHP by A. Ross Johnson. Cited Ch5 n14 in his book Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, CIA mandatory declassification review document number C01441043.
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