Charles W. Thayer Archives - Cold War Radio Museum

Why Voice of America and BBC Had No Russian-Language Broadcasts Until After WWII?

Curator — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 05:47:17 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien A partial answer to the question of why the Voice of America (VOA) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) had no Russian-language radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union until after the end of World War II can be found in the biography of William Benton by Sidney Hyman. […]

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Voice Of America Launched Long-Delayed, Soft Broadcasts to Soviet Russia

Curator — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 05:39:00 +0000

The first Voice of America broadcast in Russian aired from New York on February 17, 1947. Before that date, VOA did not broadcast in Russian or in Ukrainian, not even during World War II. Russian was the only major language missing in the VOA wartime broadcasting schedule. Testifying on February 28, 1946 before the subcommittee […]

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Secret Memos on How Voice of America Was Duped by Soviet Propaganda on Katyn Massacre

Curator — Mon, 03 May 2021 06:29:19 +0000

VOA officials and journalists were manipulated by the Soviet fake news offensive for many years By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum According to a declassified confidential State Department memorandum dated January 25, 1951, Charles Thayer, who from January 1948 to October 1949 had been the Voice of America (VOA) director and who in […]

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Pro-Stalin Voice of America Propaganda Revealed in 1984 VOA Interview with Józef Czapski

Curator — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 23:36:13 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum A recent (2017) independent study by the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) focusing on Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts to Iran has found that under Obama administration officials these broadcasts “perpetuated to audiences the appearance of pro-regime [Iran] propaganda, rather than objective reporting, on the part of both the VOA and […]

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