A reexamination of Walter Lippmann’s critique of the Voice of America (VOA) in light of wartime propaganda, Soviet influence operations, and the practical realities of Cold War broadcasting—revealing both the insight and the limits of his analysis...
Identification photograph of John Houseman from his Office of War Information (OWI) personnel file in New York, circa 1942. Houseman played a leading role in organizing U.S. wartime radio broadcasts, including foreign-language programming that later...
Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum In February 1972, the U.S. government-funded and managed Voice of America (VOA), then part of the United States Information Agency (USIA), observed the 30th anniversary of its founding in 1942, during World War...
A commentary by Ted Lipien for the Cold War Radio Museum In doing historical research, I found a few indirect links between one of Joseph Stalin’s greatest apologists, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Moscow correspondent in the 1930s...
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...
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Kathleen Harriman in U.S. Army uniform at the time she worked as a volunteer for the Office of War Information (OWI), the parent agency of the Voice of America (VOA). Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was an American...
WWII Pro-Soviet U.S. Government Propaganda in Polish Was Spread in Pamphlets and Voice of America Radio Broadcasts by Ted Lipien During World War II, the Office of War Information (OWI) produced and distributed printed propaganda material in the...
Konstanty Broel Plater’s Office of War Information (OWI) Personnel Record Card. Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien We know of only one Voice of America (VOA) journalist, Konstanty Broel Plater, who resigned from his job at the U.S. government...
Cold War Radio Museum One of several Communists who turned anti-communist and exposed Soviet influence at the Office of War Information, the parent U.S. government agency of the Voice of America, was Oliver Carlson, an American writer...
Stalin Peace Prize laureate Howard Fast has been erased from the history of the Voice of America, but an honest analysis of his Soviet agent of influence role as the station’s first World War II news chief could help VOA confront propaganda...