VOA 1951 Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/ctl-stories/voa-1951/ Cold War Radio History Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:39:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-CWRM-Mic2022-32x32.jpg VOA 1951 Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/ctl-stories/voa-1951/ 32 32 1951 – New York Times Reviews Former Communist Elinor Lipper’s Book Debunking U.S. Office of War Information’s Soviet Propaganda https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/timeline/new-york-times-reviews-former-communist-elinor-lippers-book-debunking-u-s-office-of-war-informations-soviet-propaganda/ Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:44:40 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=18340 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 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/timeline/quote-the-time-has-arrived-to-investigate-mr-epstein-he-is-not-best-type-of-new-america-citizen-voa-director-foy-d-kohler/ Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:16:56 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=14677   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 […]

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]]> Congressman Reveals Voice Of America To Behind Iron Curtain Is “Drab” And “Unconvincing” https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/timeline/congressman-reveals-voice-of-america-to-behind-iron-curtain-is-drab-and-unconvincing/ Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:08:57 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?post_type=cool_timeline&p=14633 Cold War Radio Museum Speaking in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 24, 1951, Congressman Richard B. Wigglesworth (Republican-Massachusetts) delivered a devastating critique of Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts to Poland. His criticism was based on letters smuggled from Poland and analyzed for the Voice of America management by Poland’s former wartime ambassador in […]

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