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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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North America

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

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

Aerial photograph of CIA headquarters

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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George H.W. Bush and Lech Walesa

CIA Reports on the Collapse of Communism in Europe

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Eastern Europe

Poland

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Eastern Europe

Romania

"The Bundeshaus (Federal Building) in Bonn, West Germany, May 1961. "

Western Europe

West Germany

Head of a toppled Stalin statue in Budapest, 1956

1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises

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Dulles, Allen

1893- 1969

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Meyer, Cord

1920- 2001

South Korean Diplomacy in Asia, 1955-1957

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1986

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931- 2022

Photograph of Helmut Kohl, 1982.

Kohl, Helmut

1930- 2017

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Murphy, Robert D. (Robert Daniel)

1894- 1978

Truman with Attlee and Stalin at Potsdam

Cold War Origins

A photo of Joseph Stalin from 1943

Stalin and the Cold War

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November 19, 1956	Review of Radio Free Europe Hungarian Broadcasts Final text of a CIA Memorandum submitted to the White House on RFE broadcasts during the Hungarian Revolution
November 19, 1956	Draft Review of Radio Free Europe Hungarian Broadcasts Draft version of a CIA memorandum prepared for the White House on RFE broadcasts during the Hungarian Revolution.
November 26, 1956	Review of Radio Free Europe Hungarian Broadcasts Cord Meyer informs Allen Dulles that Radio Free Europe (RFE) Hungarian broadcasts did not incite revolution or promise outside military intervention. He encloses his memorandum of November 16, 1956, on monitoring and program control of RFE and RL.
November 29, 1956	Radio Free Europe Hungarian Broadcasts Appraised Cord Meyer forwards to Allen Dulles, with extensive comment, deputy undersecretary of state Robert Murphy’s review, dated November 26, 1956, of selected RFE Hungarian program scripts. Meyer also forwards a CIA/IOD memorandum on RFE policy and program review procedures.
November 16, 1956	Proposed Interim Policy Guidance for Free Europe Committee, Draft The State Department approves with “comments and recommendations” a November 15, 1956, CIA/International Operations Division draft of revised guidelines for the Free Europe Committee (FEC) with handwritten revisions [presumably by a State official].
November 14, 1956	US Government Appraisal of Radio Free Europe Broadcasts Cord Meyer forwards to Allen Dulles a State Department assessment dated November 13, 1956, of Radio Free Europe Hungarian and Polish broadcasts. The assessment was requested by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and was prepared by State Department official L. Randolph Higgs, responsible for coordinating RFE issues with CIA, and Meyer, who objected to an initial State Department draft.
December 3, 1956	Rethinking the Role of Free Europe Committee and Radio Free Europe CIA/International Operations Division routing slips raise questions about an attached Free Europe Committee (FEC) draft dated November 12 on the FEC’s role in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution and note that the FEC [in New York] did not forward to Radio Free Europe Munich certain CIA guidances on broadcast policy.
November 20, 1956	CIA Assessment of Radio Free Europe Hungarian Broadcasts CIA provides the White House with an early appraisal of RFE broadcasting to Hungary during the Revolution.
November 9, 1956	Impressions of Radio Free Europe Hungarian Broadcasts Frank Wisner discusses impressions of RFE broadcasts with interlocutors in Vienna
November 5, 1956	Controversy Over Radio Free Europe Broadcasting Radio Free Europe (RFE) Director Conerey Egan reports RFE broadcasting policy problems to CIA.