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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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How Congress Exposed, Defunded and Stopped Domestic U.S. Government Propaganda in 1943

Curator — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:55:57 +0000

During World War II, the federal government’s Office of War Information (OWI), where Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts for overseas audiences were started in 1942, produced news and factual war information, but it also produced mildly partisan and sometimes deceptive pro-Soviet propaganda for newspapers and radio in the United States until the U.S. Congress, […]

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How the U.S. Government Lied About Polish Refugee Children to Protect Stalin

Curator — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 09:47:54 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum Updated: January 2024 A State Secret Polish children from World War II Santa Rosa refugee camp, Guanajuato, Mexico. Source: Embajada de Polonia en México, Wikipedia. The date and photographer are unknown. CC BY 3.0. How the Roosevelt Administration Shipped Polish Refugee Orphans to Mexico In Locked Trains and Lied About It […]

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Early U.S. government press release on ‘voice’ of America

Curator — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 05:42:09 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum New York, New York. 1943 “United Nations” exhibition of photographs presented by the United States Office of War Information (OWI) on Rockefeller Plaza. Listening to broadcasts of President Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek, heard every half-hour from a loudspeaker at one end of the frame containing the Atlantic Charter. This […]

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OWI head Elmer Davis spread Soviet Katyn propaganda lie in World War II Voice of America broadcasts

Curator — Fri, 11 May 2018 17:04:02 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum Elmer Davis, Director, Office of War Information (OWI), Alfred T. Palmer, photographer. Part of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. Soviet Russia’s lie that Hitler and Nazi Germans and not Stalin and Soviet Communists were responsible for […]

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First VOA Director was a pro-Soviet communist sympathizer, State Dept. warned FDR White House

Curator — Sat, 05 May 2018 06:23:44 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum April 1943 – State Department Warns White House of Soviet Influence at Voice of America May 4, 2018 Analysis by Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum In 2018, the online Cold War Radio Museum presented for the first time to a broader online audience a secret 1943 memorandum sent to the Roosevelt […]

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April 20, 1943 — Congressman Woodruff warns of Soviet propaganda in Voice of America broadcasts

Curator — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:49:30 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum On April 13, 1943, Nazi Germany’s propaganda machine announced the discovery of the graves containing the bodies of thousands of Polish prisoners of war in Soviet captivity who went missing in Russia in the spring of 1940. A few days later, on April 16 and April 17, 1943, the management of […]

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April 17, 1943 – Voice of America airs Soviet propaganda lie on Katyn Massacre

Curator — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 01:45:25 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum Declassified documents in the National Archives show that a directive issued to on April 17, 1943 by the management of the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) ordered its Overseas Branch in charge of what were later called Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts to air and promote the Soviet propaganda […]

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Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda

Curator — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 14:49:42 +0000

OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda By Ted Lipien The Voice of America (VOA) was an easier target than Radio Free Europe (RFE) or Radio Liberty (RL) for U.S. government bureaucrats wanting to restrict human rights broadcasting to the Soviet Union in 1974 as […]

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SOLZHENITSYN Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America

Curator — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 07:09:24 +0000

OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn SOLZHENITSYN, Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America By Ted Lipien This research article, written for Cold War Radio Museum website to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik coup in Russia, deals primarily with censorship at the U.S. […]

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