1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
North America
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1911- 1984
1931- 2022
1914- 1984
1911- 1998
1970
CIA reviews RL history in a briefing book (extract)
September 8, 1967
An inter-agency Radio Study Group reviews options for RFE and RL in the wake of publicity about CIA funding. It recommends (the Bureau of the Budget representative dissenting) that CIA funding continue but that US government support be acknowledged
September 8, 1966
CIA proposes adoption of the findings of the Panel on US Government Broadcasting to the Communist Bloc pertaining to RFE and RL but urges continued solicitation of private corporate donations by the RFE Fund [successor to the Crusade for Freedom]
December 6, 1963
Revised guidelines (updating previous Gray Broadcasting policy) for RL broadcasting policy approved by the Committee for Radio Broadcasting Policy.
June 1, 1962
In Dispatch No. 743, the Prague Embassy views RFE as âdoing a job of good qualityâ but offers suggestions for improving the broadcasts
November 27, 1961
An interagency group convened by the Bureau of the Budget concludes that RFE and RL funding should continue at current levels, that continuous evaluation of programs is needed, and that European co-funding should be explored
June 20, 1961
FEC Directors C. D. Jackson and Whitney Debevoise discuss with State Department officials their ideas on using RFE to pressure the Soviets during the Berlin Crisis
April 24, 1960
Dulles drafts a suggestion for establishing âFreedom Radiosâ that would merge RFE and RL, expand broadcasts to other parts of the world, and become truly private enterprises free of CIA involvement
May 13, 1959
USIA Director George Allen sympathizes with State Department questioning the value of RFE and RL in a meeting with Allen Dulles and others
February 24, 1959
C.D. Jackson, in a personal letter to Allen Dulles, suggests reviving the concept of liberation of Eastern Europe.