1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
North America
East Asia
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1914- 1984
1879- 1953
1912- 1994
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]
April 28, 1966
Panel commissioned by the White House and comprised of Zbigniew Brzezinski, William E. Griffith, John S. Hays, and Richard S. Salant recommends continuation of RFE and RL as covertly funded objective news services, along with VOA and RIAS, discontinuation of public solicitation of private financial donations to RFE, and (Hays dissenting) establishing a Radio Free China
June 19, 1964
In Airgram 556, the Prague Embassy again commends RFE but suggests further improvements in its broadcasts
December 6, 1963
Revised guidelines (updating previous Gray Broadcasting policy) for RL broadcasting policy approved by the Committee for Radio Broadcasting Policy.
October 23, 1963
Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson reports Anatoly Dobryninâs denunciation of Radio Liberty (and other âsubversiveâ radios) while noting the Soviet Union had stopped jamming Voice of America Russian.
June 7, 1962
In Dispatch No. 466, the Warsaw Embassy views RFE as âdoing an effective jobâ in broadcasting to Poland
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
January 5, 1959
Foreign Service Officer David Mark, reporting in Moscow Dispatch No. 375, suggests changes in US policy to embrace reduction of âpressure-generating activitiesâ on Eastern Europe, including Radio Free Europe (RFE). Ambassador Llwellyn E. Thompson dissents but suggests that RFE broadcasts might be halted in exchange for an end to Soviet jamming [of Voice of America and other Western broadcasts].
May 26, 1958
Cord Meyer informs Allen Dulles about an International Organizations Division review concluding that AMCOMLIB co-founder Isaac Don Levineâs criticisms of RL Russian broadcasts are largely baseless.
May 1, 1958
USIA guidelines for VOA Russian broadcasting policy, endorsed by the Committee on Radio Broadcasting Policy.