1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
North America
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1911- 1984
1920- 2001
1893- 1969
1970
CIA reviews RL history in a briefing book (extract)
December 29, 1969
Kissinger recommends that RL funding be reinstated for Fiscal Year 1971. President Nixon approves Kissinger’s recommendation.
December 19, 1969
Acting CIA Director R.E. Cushman appeals to Henry Kissinger on the Nixon Administration’s decision to terminate Radio Liberty.
August 18, 1969
CIA officials react to State Department criticism of a personal attack on Czechoslovak Party leader Gustav Husak in a RFE broadcast
February 20, 1969
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
The outgoing Johnson administration defers for action by the incoming Nixon administration decisions on future funding of RFE and RL
August 22, 1968
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
DCI Helms approves procedures to surge-fund RFE and RL through June 1969
December 19, 1967
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
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
