Radio Free Europe organization
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Claims (39)
CIA front_for
Radio Free Europe documented
“That mentioned CIA's idea of a golden parachute, which would have at least eliminated current funding problems. The CIA argued that the radios were not really private voluntary organizations like the National Student Association, but were a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 7:21
CIA funded
Radio Free Europe documented
“Embarrassed at the time, Langley had not done enough to alter its arrangements. Why change something that's been working for you for decades? One of Cord Meyer's subordinates, the chief of the program evaluation group, had pushed for more s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 2:08
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Radio Free Europe documented
“So there really wasn't any private funding coming in at all. When the news appeared, CIA's Radio Free Europe connection garnered wide attention. By November, the president had had his bill. After one of his Tuesday lunches, LBJ talked priva…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 7:51
Radio Free Europe carried_out_attack
Hungary documented
“no Radio Free Europe broadcast to Hungary before the revolution could be considered as inciting armed revolt and non-promised U.S. military intervention. Some Hungarian exiles on Radio Free Europe staff could not resist statements about Wes…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 53:59
William Griffith covered_up
Radio Free Europe documented
“the worst break of all in the radio's policy. Though Thury's daughter, Eva, later countered that Griffith himself had set the policy for Radio Free Europe Hungarians and that on November 4th and over the following days, he made himself scar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 55:57
Lawrence D. Neufeld exposed
Radio Free Europe documented
“And his assessment is there was excess exuberance. Lawrence D. Neufeld, formerly CIA's man on the production of the movie called Animal Farm, had been with Radio Free Europe since 1954. D. Neufeld termed the entire guidance exercise a sham …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 56:54
Cord Meyer covered_up
Radio Free Europe documented
“basically massacre. The director assigned this task to Cord Meyer. With the help of two Hungarian-speaking analysts, Meyer made a full survey of their broadcast, you know, because they weren't in English. His conclusion, Cord Meyer, quote, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:04:46
Crusade for Freedom funded
Radio Free Europe documented
“which was a proprietary CIA organization that was being used at the time to fund Radio Free Europe. The battle group would be linked to several 1958 commando-style raids in Eastern Germany. Again, Operation Gladio, Detachment A, including a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:09:47
National Committee for a Free Europe founded
Radio Free Europe book_quoted
“Figures like the former High Commissioner of Germany, General Lucius Clay, also joined Free Europe's Board of Directors, because it's a CIA front. The committee, in turn, formed a broadcasting subsidy called Radio Free Europe, which we've a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 20:11
Radio Free Europe front_for
CIA book_quoted
“Figures like the former High Commissioner of Germany, General Lucius Clay, also joined Free Europe's Board of Directors, because it's a CIA front. The committee, in turn, formed a broadcasting subsidy called Radio Free Europe, which we've a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 20:11
Frank Wisner supplied_arms_to
Radio Free Europe book_quoted
“and it had corporate offices in New York, and its studios were in Munich. It employed Eastern European, quote-unquote, immigrants as broadcasters, some of which are the same people that was in the Operation Gladio cells during World War II.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 20:41
Radio Free Europe front_for
CIA book_quoted
“had sharpened in 1967 with the realization that the CIA funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and a variety of other youth, labor, media, nonprofits, and public interest groups, all of which were used for CIA fronts. In Nixon's fi…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 25:18
National Committee for a Free Europe funded
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“Free Europe Committee, the first iteration of it, ran a variety of information and propaganda campaigns and used Radio Free Europe to do it, which means they were propaganda working for the CIA. In December 1947, the newly formed National S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 9:39
Office of Policy Coordination funded
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“Radio Free Europe employed Eastern European immigrants as broadcasters, obviously because they know the language. Radio Free Europe was secretly given Wisner's radio transmitter. A search began for more powerful equipment. The OPC kept in c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 30:08
National Committee for a Free Europe founded
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“It's just like an old World War II comrade group to attack Russia. The committee created a broadcasting subsidiary called Radio Free Europe with corporate offices in New York. Internal Radio Free Europe documents make out Kennan as the fath…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 29:42
Radio Free Europe carried_out_attack
Eastern Soviet Union documented
“Former OSS radio experts Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, and Robert Lang helped select transmission sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-hour program beamed into Czechoslovakia July of 1950. From that December, Radio …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 30:38
C.D. Jackson headed
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“400 tons of leaflets over the Soviet Union. I guess we didn't care about littering back then. C.D. Jackson becomes Radio Free Europe's president. Politician Harold Stassen, journalist Drew Pearson, all were part of this program. Creation of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 34:36
Harold Stassen member_of
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“400 tons of leaflets over the Soviet Union. I guess we didn't care about littering back then. C.D. Jackson becomes Radio Free Europe's president. Politician Harold Stassen, journalist Drew Pearson, all were part of this program. Creation of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 34:36
Drew Pearson member_of
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“400 tons of leaflets over the Soviet Union. I guess we didn't care about littering back then. C.D. Jackson becomes Radio Free Europe's president. Politician Harold Stassen, journalist Drew Pearson, all were part of this program. Creation of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 34:36
Radio Free Europe front_for
CIA book_quoted
“The committee was actually a CIA front that channeled funds to anti-communist European immigrants and financed major propaganda efforts at Radio Free Europe, which was also a CIA front. At least $2 million of money poured into the committee…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 19:40
Richard Nixon supported
Radio Free Europe book_quoted
“to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty began to run out. Nixon supported continuing those funds, and new funds were openly appropriated by Congress for two years. But by January of 1971, Senator Clifford Case of New Jersey detailed the secr…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 25:48
Radio Free Europe carried_out_attack
Hungary documented
“Demanding a new government under Nagy, a previously purged Hungarian. Reinstalled as premier, Nagy's opponents continue to control the party. Radio Free Europe broadcasts encourage Hungarians to press the Nagy regime on liberalization. Nagy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 51:28
Zabensky Jordan worked_at
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“Zabensky Jordan went on to work at Radio Free Europe. That's one of his graduate students. Another one from Czechoslovakia was from a rich Catholic family, became a professor at Notre Dame and then moved to Munich and taught there. A guy fr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 11 @ 26:22
CIA funded
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“for a free Europe and radio-free Europe remained major priorities for the CIA. Wisner personally attended planning conferences of those organizations in 49 and 50, and he approved their budget because they were all covert operations. Alan D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6) @ 48:49
CIA front_for
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“talked about that Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of those things, the U.S. Information Agency, were all CIA fronts. So there's no useful purpose for the American people to know that they're being propagandized by their government…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 56:41
CIA funded
Radio Free Europe documented
“And we'll use air quotes there. In January of 71, New Jersey Senator Clifford Case proposed legislation creating a board of international broadcasting to oversee the radios. For the first time, the government official, not merely the media,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 13:12
CIA funded
Radio Free Europe book_quoted
“had sharpened in 1967 with the realization that the CIA funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and a variety of other youth, labor, media, nonprofits, and public interest groups, all of which were used for CIA fronts. In Nixon's fi…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 25:18
Clifford Case funded
Radio Free Europe documented
“ever formally considering the expenditure. The case proposal provided $30 million in 72 and temporary policy guidance from the State Department until the board became established. Hearings before the Fulbright Senate Foreign Relations Commi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 13:42
CIA funded
Radio Free Europe book_quoted
“You guessed it, the Soviets. John Lenkowski, Soviet specialist on the national security staff, spearheaded this effort. He proposed $2.6 billion to revamp Radio Free Europe. See what happens when you get a bomb detonated? You get a request …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 26:47
C.D. Jackson member_of
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“Dwight D. Eisenhower had a psyops guy as his speechwriter when he was running for president in 1952. That should make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. The guy was part of Bilderberg. He was part of the Radio Free Europe, which is…”
▶ Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5 @ 1:52:20
CIA funded
Radio Free Europe documented
“Nixon and Kissinger worked on the legislation which passed Congress March 3rd, 1972, providing that radios for things like Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of the other propaganda bullshit was passed with $36 million in its first f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 51:10
Radio Free Europe front_for
CIA host_asserted
“George DeMorgan Shield's brother became a CIA agent, asset, in April of 1950 when, according to the agency memo, he was approved as a contact for foreign intelligence purposes. Well, of course he was if he's working with Radio Liberty Commi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23 @ 35:01
Allen Dulles founded
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“as well as the Bush family. They were close friends with the Bush family. The conservative author, William Henry Chamberlain, was a friend of Alan Dulles' with whom he worked on Radio Liberty Committee, one of the Cold War propaganda projec…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23 @ 34:24
Frank Wisner funded
Radio Free Europe book_quoted
“An Asian version of Radio Free Europe was set up where? Oh, in Taiwan and beamed across mainland China. There was evidence of CIA complicity in subsidizing publications, labor movements, youth movements, public interest groups, including th…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 31:28
Radio Free Europe carried_out_attack
Hungarian Revolution book_quoted
“invoking them to rise up against it. But of course, we know exactly what happened when they did that. All the patriots got killed. It's almost like a calling. If you go back to the Hungarian Revolution, where they actually believed the CIA …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 @ 3:52
Robert Lansing member_of
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“Former OSS radio experts Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, and Robert Lang helped select transmission sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-hour program beamed into Czechoslovakia July of 1950. From that December, Radio …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 30:38
Peter Mero member_of
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“Former OSS radio experts Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, and Robert Lang helped select transmission sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-hour program beamed into Czechoslovakia July of 1950. From that December, Radio …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 30:38
Joseph Galina acted_as_intermediary_for
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“immigrant community was financed by the Vatican Church. So Golina, the director of the document center, is acting as an intermediary between some of the Polish people and an entity called Radio Free Europe, which of course we know is the CI…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 11 @ 11:13
CIA funded
Radio Free Europe host_asserted
“Radio Free Europe to instigate uprisings that they have no intention of helping. And they're going to watch the Soviet Union put those uprisings down. Well, what psychological value is there in doing that? They're the bad guy. Look, they ju…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:34:37
Mentions (105)
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It's freaking unbelievable to me. The fact that they were so audacious, and it says here that they worked with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which are both arms of the CIA, and they actually set them up in Russia. Well, the first 10 …
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It's freaking unbelievable to me. The fact that they were so audacious, and it says here that they worked with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which are both arms of the CIA, and they actually set them up in Russia. Well, the first 10 …
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Oh, yeah. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. That was one of those kind of secret societies that I did a whole post on that. He was a member of the what he was the chairman for the Crusade for Freedom, which is one of those C…
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Dwight D. Eisenhower had a psyops guy as his speechwriter when he was running for president in 1952. That should make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. The guy was part of Bilderberg. He was part of the Radio Free Europe, which is…
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They were actually working with the U.S. government to glorify the OUN and the UPA in Soviet Ukraine using the Radio Liberty, which is probably like RFERL, Radio Freedom, Radio Liberty, the CIA radio station that's still on the internet tod…
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Figures like the former High Commissioner of Germany, General Lucius Clay, also joined Free Europe's Board of Directors, because it's a CIA front. The committee, in turn, formed a broadcasting subsidy called Radio Free Europe, which we've a…
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and it had corporate offices in New York, and its studios were in Munich. It employed Eastern European, quote-unquote, immigrants as broadcasters, some of which are the same people that was in the Operation Gladio cells during World War II.…
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and was in search of even more powerful equipment so they could have a bigger broadcast. The OPC kept in close contact with Radio Free Europe, assigning officers to work there and hiring former OSS radio experts like Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, an…
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in the selection of transmitter sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-an-hour program that was beamed over Czechoslovakia on July 4, 1950. In 1951, Wisner followed up with several similar organizations that …
▶ 55:09
Just like NATO. It was not a European NATO only. It was NATO overall. So that kind of gets us to the end of the chapter. It does talk a little bit about the setting up of Radio Free Europe in 1953 as a part of this. Operation Veto, which wa…
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Nixon and Kissinger worked on the legislation which passed Congress March 3rd, 1972, providing that radios for things like Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of the other propaganda bullshit was passed with $36 million in its first f…
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Nixon and Kissinger worked on the legislation which passed Congress March 3rd, 1972, providing that radios for things like Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of the other propaganda bullshit was passed with $36 million in its first f…
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had sharpened in 1967 with the realization that the CIA funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and a variety of other youth, labor, media, nonprofits, and public interest groups, all of which were used for CIA fronts. In Nixon's fi…
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had sharpened in 1967 with the realization that the CIA funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and a variety of other youth, labor, media, nonprofits, and public interest groups, all of which were used for CIA fronts. In Nixon's fi…
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to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty began to run out. Nixon supported continuing those funds, and new funds were openly appropriated by Congress for two years. But by January of 1971, Senator Clifford Case of New Jersey detailed the secr…
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to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty began to run out. Nixon supported continuing those funds, and new funds were openly appropriated by Congress for two years. But by January of 1971, Senator Clifford Case of New Jersey detailed the secr…
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So again, you can't have independence if you're funding them. Both Nixon and Kissinger worked on the legislation, which passed Congress in 1972, providing the radios with $36 million the first year. The funds were administered by the Secret…
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So again, you can't have independence if you're funding them. Both Nixon and Kissinger worked on the legislation, which passed Congress in 1972, providing the radios with $36 million the first year. The funds were administered by the Secret…
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An Asian version of Radio Free Europe was set up where? Oh, in Taiwan and beamed across mainland China. There was evidence of CIA complicity in subsidizing publications, labor movements, youth movements, public interest groups, including th…
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Um, Oklalevich was beaten during an abortive kidnapping and NTS, um, member Parimsky was the subject of another abortive murder attempt. The Russians were more successful with Ukrainian level Lebrebet, R-E-B-E-T, whom they assassinated in 1…
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The first real crisis of the Eisenhower era erupted in Middle Europe, Germany specifically. One catalyst of events was Stalin's death in March of 1953, while Radio Free Europe, then Radio Liberty, busied itself with saturating the airwaves …
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of broadcast through Radio Free Europe, it had moved ahead to special targeted initiatives. Operation Veto, inaugurated in early 54, encouraged long-term resistance in the Soviet areas, especially Hungary. Operation Focus succeeded Veto. Bo…
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The CIA radio being broadcast into Hungary 20 hours a day over Voice of Free Hungary. They also dropped tons of leaflets. It had a major role. By this time, Radio Free Europe had a substantial capacity to exploit Khrushchev's words. Surveys…
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while only 20% had gotten a leaflet. According to the CIA's own post-mortem, in the four months between publication of the secret speech and the Hungarian revolution, radio-free Europe was non-stop. There were also riots in Poland in reacti…
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With these came the return of the communist faction that was responsible for earlier purges. Soviet troops deployed momentarily, but were recalled. Jan Nowak, heading Radio Free Europe's Polish broadcasters, kept the reporting low-key, avoi…
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Khrushchev also went to Yugoslavia, where his talks led to a declaration that there were multiple roads to socialism. This, too, was featured on Radio Free Europe. That news electrified Hungary. The CIA knew it had a problem. Eisenhower's d…
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Demanding a new government under Nagy, a previously purged Hungarian. Reinstalled as premier, Nagy's opponents continue to control the party. Radio Free Europe broadcasts encourage Hungarians to press the Nagy regime on liberalization. Nagy…
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Agency psychological warfare expert Cord Meyer, who had supervised Radio Free Europe since 1954, awakened the morning of October 24th to a phone call from Dulles, who ordered him to the headquarters immediately. All hell has broken loose in…
▶ 52:29
a deputy to Cord Meyer, who had handled Radio Free Europe almost from its inception. Michael Josselson, a CIA specialist on cultural operations. James MacHarger with Free Europe. And Carl Kalase, a Hungarian specialist. William Griffith, a …
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outraged citizens murdered members of security detachments but then 10 000 russian troops entered budapest within days streets were engulfed in dead bodies the story in cia lore is that officers in budapest scribbled reports lying on the fl…
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no Radio Free Europe broadcast to Hungary before the revolution could be considered as inciting armed revolt and non-promised U.S. military intervention. Some Hungarian exiles on Radio Free Europe staff could not resist statements about Wes…
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noted that on October 27th, the broadcast said, fairly clearly implies that foreign aid will be forthcoming if resistant forces succeed in establishing a central authority, unquote. The next day, there was an announcement on the air, quote,…
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Where are the Americans, he was asked. Where are the British? When are they coming? Everyone there thought there was going to be help. On November 4th, Radio Free Europe broadcaster Zoltan Thury commented, quote, in the Western capitals, a …
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the worst break of all in the radio's policy. Though Thury's daughter, Eva, later countered that Griffith himself had set the policy for Radio Free Europe Hungarians and that on November 4th and over the following days, he made himself scar…
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in poor health during this period, who had delegated virtually all his script approvals to others, among them subordinates who practically never attended a single staff meeting. Sig Mickelson, a president of Radio Free Committee and foremos…
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And his assessment is there was excess exuberance. Lawrence D. Neufeld, formerly CIA's man on the production of the movie called Animal Farm, had been with Radio Free Europe since 1954. D. Neufeld termed the entire guidance exercise a sham …
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but it was all just mud in your eye because they simply ignored their own guidance, unquote. Even worse, though, the CIA had a full department dedicated to translating journals and broadcasts from Eastern Europe. No one bothered to do the s…
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Budapest students weather Radio Free Europe in the Voice of America had encouraged the rebellion. They all said yes, but we didn't hear about that here. Almost 200,000 refugees made it to Austria. Casualty estimates range up to 30,000 dead …
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Some felt intervention could have been carried out without war with the Soviet Union. In passing up the opportunity, Bill Colby recollected, quote, we demonstrated that liberation was not our policy when the chips are down in Eastern Europe…
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like Barnes in Germany, found him close to a breakdown. In fact, Wisner could hardly continue. Back home, he had to go on vacation. On December 16th, he was checked into a hospital. He had contacted hepatitis. At least that's what we were t…
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basically massacre. The director assigned this task to Cord Meyer. With the help of two Hungarian-speaking analysts, Meyer made a full survey of their broadcast, you know, because they weren't in English. His conclusion, Cord Meyer, quote, …
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And Cord Meyer wrote the lie. The highlighted passage on the White House copy among the paragraphs of justification for even why we have Radio Free Europe said, quote, a few of the scripts reviewed do indicate that Radio Free Europe occasio…
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So don't read the fine print. The overall assessment was we were not involved. It went on. There were some evidence of attempts by Radio Free Europe to provide tactical advice to the patriots as to the course of rebellion should take and th…
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though the uprising itself resulted from Soviet repression. Eisenhower ended the PSYOPs campaign like Operation Focus and tightened the control over Radio Free Europe's broadcast decisions and ordered an end to the leaflet program. Why the …
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which was a proprietary CIA organization that was being used at the time to fund Radio Free Europe. The battle group would be linked to several 1958 commando-style raids in Eastern Germany. Again, Operation Gladio, Detachment A, including a…
▶ 1:34:08
and overthrow governments and steal all their shit. We've unequivocally proven that, okay? So if that's what they're going to do, they have to ensure that their boogeyman, the Soviet Union, can be used. Now, if I go in and I basically, and …
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They do the exact same thing with Hollywood that they do with the mainstream media. And this has been proven all over the world. They go into countries that they're gonna overthrow and they will buy media. The whole running of Radio Free Eu…
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talked about that Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of those things, the U.S. Information Agency, were all CIA fronts. So there's no useful purpose for the American people to know that they're being propagandized by their government…
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talked about that Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of those things, the U.S. Information Agency, were all CIA fronts. So there's no useful purpose for the American people to know that they're being propagandized by their government…
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obliged Gene Groves to make declarations he would have preferred to avoid while others positioned themselves around the debate. As soon as reporters began to delve into the relationship between the CIA and the National Student Association, …
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Embarrassed at the time, Langley had not done enough to alter its arrangements. Why change something that's been working for you for decades? One of Cord Meyer's subordinates, the chief of the program evaluation group, had pushed for more s…
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Radio Liberty, and other projects. Soon the papers were full of diagrams tying the CIA to the private institutions, and private is in air quotes, not just the radios, but cultural groups, including the Asia Foundation, among others. Langley…
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primarily overseas, but not exclusively. Cord Meyer, who had a tin ear for politics and intelligence, regarded what happened as an act of unilateral political disarmament. The truth is that Radio Free Europe link had already begun to fray. …
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And Radio Free Europe has already been recounted. No doubt, knowledge of the links to Radio Liberty had a similar impact. Now, come on. They already knew this was happening. There were huge entities with costs to match. A special assistant …
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And Radio Free Europe has already been recounted. No doubt, knowledge of the links to Radio Liberty had a similar impact. Now, come on. They already knew this was happening. There were huge entities with costs to match. A special assistant …
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$30 to $35 million annually and determined that up to 90% of the people employed by those two entities were actually CIA. Each year, Radio Free Europe held a big fundraising drive relying on donated space and airtime for advertising in whic…
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Eastern Europe would be crippled, but they didn't actually do anything to set them up. And the one time when they had the chance with Hungary, they let them get killed. Presidents supported these campaigns at CIA's behest. The Soviet bloc h…
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Capitalizing on communist dissension, which could have revealed the Radio Free Europe CIA propaganda mission, had been crossed out of a speech and replaced with source of block information, meaning the Soviet bloc. In November of 1964, Cord…
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But on October 20th, 1966, Johnson sent Helms a note instructing him, please take steps to make sure I don't get committed to fundraising projects without my approval ahead of time. Then came the Ramparts affair and its further revelations.…
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But on October 20th, 1966, Johnson sent Helms a note instructing him, please take steps to make sure I don't get committed to fundraising projects without my approval ahead of time. Then came the Ramparts affair and its further revelations.…
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The CIA wanted to provide Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty a large final payment, but this did not erase the flap potential. On May 5th, White House media specialist Robert Kentner informed the president that ABC News now had the goods o…
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The CIA wanted to provide Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty a large final payment, but this did not erase the flap potential. On May 5th, White House media specialist Robert Kentner informed the president that ABC News now had the goods o…
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That mentioned CIA's idea of a golden parachute, which would have at least eliminated current funding problems. The CIA argued that the radios were not really private voluntary organizations like the National Student Association, but were a…
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So there really wasn't any private funding coming in at all. When the news appeared, CIA's Radio Free Europe connection garnered wide attention. By November, the president had had his bill. After one of his Tuesday lunches, LBJ talked priva…
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and enlist their support. Helms then informed LBJ. Of course, Richard Russell was one of the primary targets. He was a close friend of LBJ's. He became one of the strongest backers. The Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty issue consumed alm…
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and enlist their support. Helms then informed LBJ. Of course, Richard Russell was one of the primary targets. He was a close friend of LBJ's. He became one of the strongest backers. The Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty issue consumed alm…
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Toward the end of 68, the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board urged LBJ to push for congressional support of one or more publicly funded institutions that would take care of the radios. The crunch came in 69 when funds were depleted. T…
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Public fundraising that year, fueled by $20 million in advertising, netted a mere $100,000. The administration of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger as national security advisor were unwavering cold warriors and had no qualms about funding t…
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They'll audit you and me, but not CIA proprietaries. The Ramparts flap marked a sea change for the agency, ending Frank Wisner's fabled Wurlitzer. Two years later, Cord Meyer went to London as the station chief, his service rewarded by Rich…
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They'll audit you and me, but not CIA proprietaries. The Ramparts flap marked a sea change for the agency, ending Frank Wisner's fabled Wurlitzer. Two years later, Cord Meyer went to London as the station chief, his service rewarded by Rich…
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And we'll use air quotes there. In January of 71, New Jersey Senator Clifford Case proposed legislation creating a board of international broadcasting to oversee the radios. For the first time, the government official, not merely the media,…
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And we'll use air quotes there. In January of 71, New Jersey Senator Clifford Case proposed legislation creating a board of international broadcasting to oversee the radios. For the first time, the government official, not merely the media,…
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ever formally considering the expenditure. The case proposal provided $30 million in 72 and temporary policy guidance from the State Department until the board became established. Hearings before the Fulbright Senate Foreign Relations Commi…
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NSC Special Envoy Kissinger should be able to say no whenever he wanted to. An immediate program change seemed necessary, except that the group pushed hard for public funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. In general, the Lindsay …
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NSC Special Envoy Kissinger should be able to say no whenever he wanted to. An immediate program change seemed necessary, except that the group pushed hard for public funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. In general, the Lindsay …
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But there was little hope by 1969 that the public attitude towards covert operations would be as permissive as Nixon had been as vice president before the Bay of Pigs, the Congo, Vietnam, and the National Student Association Radio Free Euro…
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Publishing text and printing presses and papers smuggled to assorted dissident groups, but it also included training. Stimulated by the Reaganites, Radio Free Europe also had an important role to play. The old CIA radio had responded to an …
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perhaps relocating to the US. Yeah, BS. There was a bombing at Radio Free Europe in Munich. And then the board wanted to use operating funds to make repairs. The Reagan White House saw an opportunity to energize the entire operation. And th…
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You guessed it, the Soviets. John Lenkowski, Soviet specialist on the national security staff, spearheaded this effort. He proposed $2.6 billion to revamp Radio Free Europe. See what happens when you get a bomb detonated? You get a request …
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Finally, he got the State Department to break with the PAC. The State Department staffer for Radio Free Europe recalls senior officers concerned that the NSC, blocking their negotiation efforts, decided to let Lenkowski have this victory so…
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It's just like an old World War II comrade group to attack Russia. The committee created a broadcasting subsidiary called Radio Free Europe with corporate offices in New York. Internal Radio Free Europe documents make out Kennan as the fath…
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Radio Free Europe employed Eastern European immigrants as broadcasters, obviously because they know the language. Radio Free Europe was secretly given Wisner's radio transmitter. A search began for more powerful equipment. The OPC kept in c…
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Former OSS radio experts Peter Mero, M-E-R-O, and Robert Lang helped select transmission sites near Frankfurt. The first Radio Free Europe broadcast was a half-hour program beamed into Czechoslovakia July of 1950. From that December, Radio …
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and became referred to in the CIA as the radios. Russian adversaries were instantly alert to the danger of the broadcast and began jamming them. As for two years, they had already jammed the over propaganda broadcast that was Voice of Ameri…
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Radio Free Europe's solution became saturating broadcasts, in which a series of increasingly powerful radio transmitters in different locations beamed the same program to Eastern Europe simultaneously on different frequencies. By 1952, the …
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in 1953 when Radio Free Europe pulled out every stop to get news into Eastern Europe. By then, the Munich headquarters at the edge of English Garden contained almost two dozen, 500 expats from Eastern Europe. The Wurlitzer was playing loud …
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400 tons of leaflets over the Soviet Union. I guess we didn't care about littering back then. C.D. Jackson becomes Radio Free Europe's president. Politician Harold Stassen, journalist Drew Pearson, all were part of this program. Creation of…
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a murder attempt. The Russians were more successful with Ukrainian leader Lev Rebit. He was assassinated in 1957. Also killed were two senior Radio Free Europe broadcasters. This campaign climaxed on October 15, 1959, when Stefan Bandera di…
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for a free Europe and radio-free Europe remained major priorities for the CIA. Wisner personally attended planning conferences of those organizations in 49 and 50, and he approved their budget because they were all covert operations. Alan D…
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as well as the Bush family. They were close friends with the Bush family. The conservative author, William Henry Chamberlain, was a friend of Alan Dulles' with whom he worked on Radio Liberty Committee, one of the Cold War propaganda projec…
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George DeMorgan Shield's brother became a CIA agent, asset, in April of 1950 when, according to the agency memo, he was approved as a contact for foreign intelligence purposes. Well, of course he was if he's working with Radio Liberty Commi…
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The committee was actually a CIA front that channeled funds to anti-communist European immigrants and financed major propaganda efforts at Radio Free Europe, which was also a CIA front. At least $2 million of money poured into the committee…
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Apart from the fundraising, it was the running of Radio Free Europe and Free Europe Press, which were all CIA. Every year, Crusade for Freedom, with major assistance from Washington officials, conducted a nationwide drive, pledging quote-un…
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Radio Free Europe, which again is a CIA front. It is widely known that Radio Free Europe was not helping Europe at all. In their broadcast, they would tell people behind the Iron Curtain that communism is bad and was actively…
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invoking them to rise up against it. But of course, we know exactly what happened when they did that. All the patriots got killed. It's almost like a calling. If you go back to the Hungarian Revolution, where they actually believed the CIA …
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was living in Western Germany. He was an active member of their world communist, anti-communist league. And it goes on to say that the correlation between the agenda of Radio Free Europe and the CFR would always match up exactly.…
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And then he lists the CFR members that were part of the Free Europe Committee, Radio Free Europe or all of the above. Adolph Burrell, General Lucius Clay, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alan Dulles, Henry Ford II, Joseph Grew, Palmer Hoyt, C.D. Jack…
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immigrant community was financed by the Vatican Church. So Golina, the director of the document center, is acting as an intermediary between some of the Polish people and an entity called Radio Free Europe, which of course we know is the CI…
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Zabensky Jordan went on to work at Radio Free Europe. That's one of his graduate students. Another one from Czechoslovakia was from a rich Catholic family, became a professor at Notre Dame and then moved to Munich and taught there. A guy fr…
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They had already demonized the Soviet Union well enough that they didn't need to continue spending money to do that under the pretense. And they had all their structure set up at that point, both for Gladio and for the CIA inside of Europe …
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Free Europe Committee, the first iteration of it, ran a variety of information and propaganda campaigns and used Radio Free Europe to do it, which means they were propaganda working for the CIA. In December 1947, the newly formed National S…
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Founding the FEC, the political, organizational, and operational groundwork for all forms of anti-communist propaganda was put in place. The four basic divisions of the FEC was National Council's division for supporting exile political orga…
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Most important was involving prominent exiles in radio broadcasting to their home countries through the use of CIA's Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. Let's see. On 11 February 1951, 202 exile representatives signed the Declaration of…
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to the CIA. That's the bottom line. Radio Free Europe mounted an intensive propaganda campaign aimed at American citizens. And they also got industrial and financial giants to chip in money. And they even named some of them. So let's name t…
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who were sent over by their American mentors. So, who knew that Ukrainian Gladio people are hanging out in Taiwan? So, they trained the secret police and covert action personnel and contributed to the creation of Radio Free Asia, i.e. the C…