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December 29, 1969

Nixon Approves Continuation of Radio Liberty

Kissinger recommends that RL funding be reinstated for Fiscal Year 1971. President Nixon approves Kissinger’s recommendation.

December 19, 1969

CIA Appeals White House Decision to Terminate Radio Liberty

Acting CIA Director R.E. Cushman appeals to Henry Kissinger on the Nixon Administration’s decision to terminate Radio Liberty.

August 18, 1969

State-CIA Exchange on Radio Free Europe Czechoslovak Broadcasts

CIA officials react to State Department criticism of a personal attack on Czechoslovak Party leader Gustav Husak in a RFE broadcast

February 20, 1969

Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Excluded from Katzenbach Committee Restrictions

Henry Kissinger informs President Nixon of the 303 Committee’s determination that RFE and RL are not “private voluntary organizations” and not subject to the policy recommendations of the Katzenbach Committee ban on covert federal funding

December 31, 1968

Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Funding Issues Deferred for Nixon Administration

The outgoing Johnson administration defers for action by the incoming Nixon administration decisions on future funding of RFE and RL

August 22, 1968

Prague Embassy Urges Caution on Radio Free Europe and Voice of America

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

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

December 21, 1967

CIA Implementation of 303 Committee Decision on Funding and Continuation of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

DCI Helms approves procedures to surge-fund RFE and RL through June 1969

December 19, 1967

303 Committee Decision on Funding Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

Principals of the Departments of State and Defense and CIA agree on December 15, 1967 on “surge funding” of RFE and RL through June 1969 and on continued corporate (but not private) contributions to the RFE Fund.

September 8, 1967

Report of Radio Study Group on the Future of Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL)

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

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