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CIA Clandestine Radio Broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 16pt;">CIA's clandestine short-wave radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the USSR during the early Cold War. Chapters describe the "gray" broadcasting of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in Munich; clandestine or/span>span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 16pt;">"black" radio broadcasts from Radio Nacional de Espana in Madrid to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine; transmissions to Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Ukraine and the USSR from a secret site near Athens; and broadcasts to Byelorussia and Slovakia | |  | | Cold War Radio: The Dangerous History of American Broadcasting in Europe, 1
This book, written by a former Director of Security at Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, describes the dangerous Cold War world of the Munich stations, focusing on the security and intelligence problems which plagued the stations between 1950 and 1989.
Description
During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty broadcast uncensored news and commentary to people living in communist nations. As critical elements of the CIA’s early covert activities against communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Munich-based stations drew a large audience despite efforts to jam the broadcasts and ban citizens from listening to them.
This history of the stations in the Cold War era reveals the perils their staff faced from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania and other communist states.
It recounts in detail the m | |  | | Radio Free Europe's Crusade for Freedom
Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950-1960
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica; ">From 1950 to 1960, millions of Americans throughout the United States willingly and enthusiastically participated in Radio Free Europe’s “Crusade for Freedom.” They signed “Freedom Scrolls” and “Freedom Grams,” participated in fund-raising dinners and lunches, attended Crusader meetings, marched in parades, launched leaflet-carrying balloons, among other activities. /span>
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica; ">A compelling, decade-long pr |
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