Radio Free Europe S Crusade For Freedom

Author : Richard H. Cummings
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786462070

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Radio Free Europe's "Crusade for Freedom" by Richard H. Cummings Pdf

From 1950 to 1960, millions of Americans participated in Radio Free Europe's "Crusade for Freedom." They signed "Freedom Scrolls" and "Freedom Grams," attended Crusader meetings, marched in parades, launched leaflet-carrying balloons, and donated Truth Dollars in support of the American effort to broadcast news and other programming to the peoples of communist-governed European countries. The Crusade for Freedom proved to be a powerful tool of the state-private network's anti-communist agenda. This book takes an in-depth look at the Crusade for Freedom, revealing how its unmatched pageantry of patriotism led to the creation of a dynamic movement involving not only the government but also private industry, mass media, academia, religious leaders, and average Americans.

Author : Arch Puddington
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813147826

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Broadcasting Freedom by Arch Puddington Pdf

Among America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American perspective on global events, RFE-RL served as surrogate home radio services and a vital alternative to the controlled, party-dominated domestic press in Eastern Europe. Over twenty stations featured programming tailored to individual countries. They reached millions of listeners ranging from industrial workers to dissident leaders such as Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel. Broadcasting Freedom draws on rare archival material and offers a penetrating insider history of the radios that helped change the face of Europe. Arch Puddington reveals new information about the connections between RFE-RL and the CIA, which provided covert funding for the stations during the critical start-up years in the early 1950s. He relates in detail the efforts of Soviet and Eastern Bloc officials to thwart the stations; their tactics ranged from jamming attempts, assassinations of radio journalists, the infiltration of spies onto the radios' staffs, and the bombing of the radios' headquarters. Puddington addresses the controversies that engulfed the stations throughout the Cold War, most notably RFE broadcasts during the Hungarian Revolution that were described as inflammatory and irresponsible. He shows how RFE prevented the Communist authorities from establishing a monopoly on the dissemination of information in Poland and describes the crucial roles played by the stations as the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union broke apart. Broadcasting Freedom is also a portrait of the Cold War in America. Puddington offers insights into the strategic thinking of the RFE-RL leadership and those in the highest circles of American government, including CIA directors, secretaries of state, and even presidents.

Author : Robert T. Holt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1958-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816657889

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Radio Free Europe by Robert T. Holt Pdf

Radio Free Europe was first published in 1958. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. What is radio Free Europe? Where does it broadcast? Who runs it? What are its purposes? Although thousands of Americans are familiar with Radio Free Europe (many have contributed to its support through the Crusade for Freedom campaigns), few know enough about its background to answer these and similar questions. In this book a political scientist with first-hand knowledge gives a detailed account of the organization and development of this unique propaganda enterprise. Radio Free Europe was established as a private broadcasting project in 1949 by the Free Europe Committee, headed by Joseph C. Grew, as part of the Committee's program of broad, long-range assistance to democratic exiles from totalitarian countries. The operational headquarters are located at Munich, and the broadcasts are directed to the people of five satellite countries: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Poland. Professor Holt tells how Radio Free Europe was established, outlines its basic policies and objectives, describes its organization, personnel, programming, and services, discusses transmission problems, and examines the effectiveness of the propaganda. He describes in detail the role of RFE in connection with the uprisings in Poland and Hungary and analyzes the charges that RFE stimulated the Hungarian revolt.

Author : Russell A. Berman
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817945138

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Anti-Americanism in Europe by Russell A. Berman Pdf

In his analysis of Europe's ambivalence toward jihadist terror and the spread of aggressive Islamism, with particular emphasis on the European responses—or lack thereof—to this violent anti-modernism, Russell A. Berman describes how some European countries opt for appeasement and apologetics, whereas others muster the strength to defend their way of life and stand up for freedom. He describes a complex continent of different nations and traditions to further our understanding of the range of reactions to Islamism.

Author : Melissa Feinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190644611

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Curtain of Lies by Melissa Feinberg Pdf

'Curtain of Lies' examines the role of truth in the political culture of the Cold War by looking at Eastern Europe during the period from 1948-1956. It examines how actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain tried to delineate the 'truth' of Eastern Europe and how this worked to set the parameters of knowledge about the region

Author : Richard H. Cummings
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786453009

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Cold War Radio by Richard H. Cummings Pdf

During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty broadcast uncensored news and commentary to people living in communist nations. As critical elements of the CIA's early covert activities against communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Munich-based stations drew a large audience despite efforts to jam the broadcasts and ban citizens from listening to them. This history of the stations in the Cold War era reveals the perils their staff faced from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania and other communist states. It recounts in detail the murder of writer Georgi Markov, the 1981 bombing of the stations by "Carlos the Jackal," infiltration by KGB agent Oleg Tumanov and other events. Appendices include security reports, letters between Carlos the Jackal and German terrorist Johannes Weinrich and other documents, many of which have never been published.

Author : Daniel J. Leab
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780271045146

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Orwell Subverted by Daniel J. Leab Pdf

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Author : A. Ross Johnson
Publisher : Cold War International History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0804773564

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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty by A. Ross Johnson Pdf

An examination of the workings of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty during the period in which the two broadcast organizations were covertly supported by the CIA.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116501701

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : D. Spring
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1137347171

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Advertising in the Age of Persuasion by D. Spring Pdf

Advertising in the Age of Persuasion documents and analyzes the implementation of the American strategy of consumerism during the 1940s and 1950s, and its ongoing ramifications. Beginning with World War II, and girded by the Cold War, American advertisers, brand name corporations, and representatives of the federal government institutionalized a system of consumer capitalism which they called free enterprise. In their system, government and business worked together to create consumer republics, democracies based on the mass consumption of brand name goods using advertising across all major media to sell products and distribute information. Many of the free enterprise evangelists believed it represented the fulfillment of America's god-ordained mission. They envisioned an American lead global consumer order supported by advertising based media where the brand took precedence over the corporation that owned it; and advertising, propaganda and public relations were considered the same thing. To support this system, they created a network and process for disseminating persuasive information that survives into the 21st Century.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2578 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:35112102285683

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Report by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:35112102288950

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Report by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045316416

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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, Hearings Before...92-1, on H.R. 9330, 9637, 10570 and S. 18, September 14 and 21, 1971 by United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : Inger L Stole
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252094231

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Advertising at War by Inger L Stole Pdf

Advertising at War challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act, the result of more than a decade of campaigning to regulate the advertising industry. Inger L. Stole suggests that the war experience, even more than the legislative battles of the 1930s, defined the role of advertising in U.S. postwar political economy and the nation's cultural firmament. She argues that Washington and Madison Avenue were soon working in tandem with the creation of the Advertising Council in 1942, a joint effort established by the Office of War Information, the Association of National Advertisers, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies. Using archival sources, newspapers accounts, and trade publications, Stole demonstrates that the war elevated and magnified the seeming contradictions of advertising and allowed critics of these practices one final opportunity to corral and regulate the institution of advertising. Exploring how New Dealers and consumer advocates such as the Consumers Union battled the advertising industry, Advertising at War traces the debate over two basic policy questions: whether advertising should continue to be a tax-deductible business expense during the war, and whether the government should require effective standards and labeling for consumer products, which would render most advertising irrelevant. Ultimately the postwar climate of political intolerance and reverence for free enterprise quashed critical investigations into the advertising industry. While advertising could be criticized or lampooned, the institution itself became inviolable.

Author : Richard H. Cummings
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476678641

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Cold War Frequencies by Richard H. Cummings Pdf

Published for the first time, the history of the CIA's clandestine short-wave radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the USSR during the early Cold War is covered in-depth. Chapters describe the "gray" broadcasting of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in Munich; clandestine or "black" radio broadcasts from Radio Nacional de Espana in Madrid to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine; transmissions to Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Ukraine and the USSR from a secret site near Athens; and broadcasts to Byelorussia and Slovakia. Infiltrated behind the Iron Curtain through dangerous air drops and boat landings, CIA and other intelligence service agents faced counterespionage, kidnapping, assassination, arrest and imprisonment. Excerpts from broadcasts taken from monitoring reports of Eastern Europe intelligence agencies are included.