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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
October 23, 1963	Soviet Ambassador Dorynin on Radio Liberty Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson reports Anatoly Dobrynin’s denunciation of Radio Liberty (and other “subversive” radios) while noting the Soviet Union had stopped jamming Voice of America Russian.
December 1960	Sprague Committee Critical of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty The President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad, chaired by Mansfield Sprague, concludes that RFE and RL are slow to adapt to changes in the Soviet orbit and resulting shifts in U.S. policy. [Also available in the Richard Helms Collection released by CIA in 2008.]
June 2, 1958	Voice of America and Radio Free Europe Polish Broadcasts Reviewed Minutes of a Committee on Radio Broadcasting Policy meeting on April 17, 1958, focused on State Department criticisms of RFE broadcasts to Poland
May 1, 1958	Voice of America Russian Broadcasting Guidelines USIA guidelines for VOA Russian broadcasting policy, endorsed by the Committee on Radio Broadcasting Policy.
August 21, 1957	Committee on Radio Broadcasting Policy Minutes Minutes of CRBP meeting on August 20, 1957
August 15, 1957	Voice of America Broadcasting Policy for Czechoslovakia Voice of America (VOA) country policy guidelines for Czechoslovakia, endorsed by the Committee on Radio Broadcasting Policy (CRBP), one of a series of East European country guidelines for VOA complementing country guidelines for Radio Free Europe (RFE).
August 9, 1957	Committee on Radio Broadcasting Policy Discussion An International Organizations Division (IOD) officer recounts differences among the Committee on Radio Broadcasting Policy (CRBP) members about Radio Free Europe (RFE) country policy papers and discerns considerable overlap between RFE and the Voice of America (VOA).
May 1, 1957	Ambassador Bohlen’s Views of Radio Liberation Cord Meyer forwards to Richard Helms his account of Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen’s views of RL provided to a Committee on Radio Broadcasting Policy (CRBP) meeting on April 24. Minutes of the meeting are provided in a State Department memorandum dated April 25
February 26, 1954	CIA Review of Radio Liberty Broadcasting A CIA memorandum reviews Radio Liberty policy guidance to date and outlines how it differs from the Voice of America.