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<p><p>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 Th

Author

Arch Puddington

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813171241

Subjects

History, Political Science, Business