Jan Nowak-Jeziorański broadcasting for Radio Free Europe, 3 May 1952

Photographer unknown, May 3, 1952, public domain image via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Nowak-Jezioranski_RFE.jpg

Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

This is a collection of declassified documents pertaining to Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL) – Radios which were overseen and funded by the Central Intelligence Agency until 1971, funded there after by open Congressional appropriation, and merged in 1976 as RFE/RL, Inc. The documents were used as primary sources for A. Ross Johnson's book ''Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond'' or published in the appendix of ''Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe'' edited by A. Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta. See also CWIHP e-Dossier No. 32 and e-Dossier No. 59 for introductions to the documents, and the related collections Intelligence Operations in the Cold War, and Mass Media and Censorship.

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański broadcasting for Radio Free Europe, 3 May 1952

Photographer unknown, May 3, 1952, public domain image via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Nowak-Jezioranski_RFE.jpg

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