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November 1, 1949

Memorandum for Mr. Wisner, 'HCFE Broadcasting (Interim Report)' [Approved for Release, November 7, 2012]

An official from the Department of State, the Office of Policy Coordination updates Frank Wisner on possibilities for providing the Free Europe Committee (FEC) with intelligence reports for use in planned Radio Free Europe broadcasts. He also suggests that Foreign Broadcast Information Bureau monitoring reports of Soviet bloc media can be provided, but only in English translations.

August 4, 1952

CIA-Free Europe Committee Memorandum of Understanding

Allen Dulles records initialing a Memorandum of Understanding with Free Europe Committee (FEC). The Memorandum, also initialed by FEC President Howard B. Miller, outlines procedures for CIA (“Sponsor”) approval of FEC (“Fund”) budget submittals and establishment of a CIA liaison office to handle all FEC contacts except for financial matters and “matters which the Fund desires to take up with the Director of Sponsor [i.e., Dulles] or his immediate Deputies.”

September 19, 1972

CIA Ends All Involvement with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

A CIA chronology records the end of all financial support to RFE and RL on June 30, 1971, and the end of all supervision and other involvement on March 30, 1972. [Thereafter, funding and oversight were temporarily the responsibility of the Department of State and thereafter until 1995 the responsibility of a new federal body, the Board for International Broadcasting, and subsequently the responsibility of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.]

1970

Briefing Book on Radio Liberty Committee

CIA reviews RL history in a briefing book (extract)

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

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]

December 23, 1964

CIA Meeting with Members of Board of Directors of Free Europe Committee

FEC directors emphasize their autonomy to CIA officials reviewing “proprietary” CIA projects

January 4, 1963

CIA Approves Radio Liberty Technical Improvements

CIA Deputy Director Carter informs AMCOMLIB President Howland Sargeant of new funding for RL capital expansion

January 4, 1963

CIA Approves Radio Free Europe Technical Improvements

CIA Deputy Director Marshall Carter informs Free Europe Committee President John Richardson of new funding for RFE capital expansion

April 5, 1962

Reprise of Radio Free Europe and the Hungarian Revolution

Cord Meyer reviews the history for DCI John A. McCone

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