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1951 – New York Times Reviews Former Communist Elinor Lipper’s Book Debunking U.S. Office of War Information’s Soviet Propaganda

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Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum The March 25, 1951 Sunday edition of the New York Times had a review by journalist and writer Harry Schwartz of Elinor Lipper’s book Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps, in which the former Western political prisoner in Russia debunked various Soviet propaganda lies about the infamous Kolyma […]

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Quote: “…the time has arrived to investigate Mr. Epstein…he is not…best type of new American citizen” – VOA Director Foy D. Kohler

Curator — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:03:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum State Department diplomat and Soviet affairs specialist who was Voice of America director at the time (from October 1949 to September 1952), Foy D. Kohler, denied all the charges of Soviet propaganda influence within the Voice of America, made by former Office of War Information (OWI) German desk editor Julius Epstein, […]

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Richard Nixon (R-CA) on Voice of America Circa 1951

Curator — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 01:04:04 +0000

In the early 1950s, the Voice of America (VOA) started to attract bipartisan support after several years of strong criticism earlier, mostly from Republicans but also from a number of Democrats, that some of VOA’s pioneer executives and journalists hired during World War II were overly sympathetic toward the Soviet Union and toward communism, and […]

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Voice of America 1951 – ‘Drab’ ‘Unconvincing’

Curator — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:57:21 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum In 1951, the Voice of America (VOA), which was at that time located in New York but managed from Washington by the State Department, was under heavily criticism, particularly from Republicans in the U.S. Congress, for failing to counter Soviet propaganda. Voice of America listeners in communist ruled Poland, in letters […]

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