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Jan Nowak-Jeziorański broadcasting for Radio Free Europe, 3 May 1952

Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

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Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

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American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (AMCOMLIB)

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Sargeant, Howland H.

1911- 1984

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Eastern Europe

Czechoslovakia

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United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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Meyer, Cord

1920- 2001

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Dulles, Allen

1893- 1969

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Wisner, Frank G., Sr.

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Head of a toppled Stalin statue in Budapest, 1956

1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises

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Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

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Prague Spring, 1968

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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
September 8, 1966	CIA Submittal to 303 Committee, Reaffirmation of Existing Policy on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty 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	Report of the Panel on US Government Radio Broadcasting to the Communist Bloc 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
November 16, 1956	Proposed Interim Policy Guidance for Free Europe Committee, Second Draft Second draft of “Proposed Interim Guidance for FEC” prepared for Allen Dulles to forward [over his disclosed pseudonym] to the FEC.