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Voice of America Freelancer Who Promoted Stalin’s Propaganda Lie on Katyn Massacre

Curator — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 22:49:07 +0000

By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was an American journalist working during World War II in Great Britain and Russia as an occasional freelance news reporter for the U.S. government. She was also the daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union—a young, attractive, wealthy woman who was made […]

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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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