Side C label listing multiple American performers recorded for Radio Free Europe broadcast use. Side D featuring a 3:20 Benny Goodman interview labeled “Answers Only (Spiraled).” These two images document a 33⅓ RPM transcription...
How the Radio Free Europe Fund used civic pageantry, fundraising, and public campaigns to support a covert Cold War broadcasting operation. Illustrated with archival photographs and documents.
A Paycheck from the “National Committee for a Free Europe”: A Small Document from a Covert Cold War Operation Payroll Statement (P/R Statement), National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc., New York, early 1950s. A routine wage and tax document that...
I published my op-ed in The Hill today (March 17, 2025) about the the Trump administration’s sudden, drastic and counterproductive action of shutting down all journalistic operations serving audiences abroad under the umbrella of the U.S. Agency for...
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum In his book Radio Free Europe’s “Crusade for Freedom: Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950–1960,” Richard H. Cummings describes “Operation VETO” as an attempt by...
Summary Marek Walicki, Voice of America, circa 1990. Marek Walicki, a journalist and former broadcaster of the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe (RFE) and the Polish Service of the Voice of America (VOA), is the author of a book, Z Polski...
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum On December 13, 1981, the communist government of the Polish People’s Republic subservient to Moscow introduced martial law and formed a military junta in an ultimately unsuccessful...
My new op-ed in The Hill includes comments on the latest barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israeli civilians—defenseless Jewish women, children, and the elderly. I discuss the hard-to-understand and explain defense of...
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Updated February 17, 2024 Marek Walicki, the former journalist of the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe and the Polish section of the Voice of America, is the author of Z Polski Ludowej do Wolnej Europy...
Mark Pomar’s new book about the Cold War political radio could help American government officials unfamiliar with the history of U.S. international broadcasting. By Ted Lipien Mark Pomar’s book Cold War Radio [Mark G. Pomar, Cold War...