Radio Liberty Archives - Cold War Radio Museum

Voice of America in 1957 and 1972 – VOA’s International Broadcasting Successes and Failures

Curator — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 23:30:57 +0000

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 II. The Voice of America commissioned a bronze medal to mark 30 years of VOA’s […]

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Why are US-funded USAGM journalists defending Russia, Iran over the Hamas massacre? – Ted Lipien Op-Ed in The Hill

Curator — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:57:22 +0000

My new op-ed in The Hill includes comments on the latest barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israeli civilians—defenseless Jewish women, children, and the elderly. I discuss the hard-to-understand and explain defense of propaganda and disinformation from Iran and Russia by U.S. government-managed and funded U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) journalists, including federal employees working for the Voice […]

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Religious Programs at the Voice of America

Curator — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:38:34 +0000

Anti-communist atheist Bertram D. Wolfe discovered that Voice of America (VOA) English-language service writers could not write persuasively about religion in communist-ruled nations in the early 1950s. Religious programming was then and continues to be a challenge for VOA’s American-born officials and broadcasters, partly because of the wrongly perceived separation of church and state concerns […]

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Jamming Was a Sign of Effectiveness of Western Broadcasts

Curator — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:33:39 +0000

Soviet jamming was a sign of the effectiveness of Western radio broadcasts. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were consistently jammed. The Voice of America was jammed only during some periods. Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum In his book Operation Suicide: “Those Strange Bridges to Communism,” published in 1967, American journalist Eugene Lyons, a former communist […]

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1961 Radio Liberty – Radio Svoboda QSL Card

Curator — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 02:32:30 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum A QSL card sent out by Radio Liberty (Radio Svoboda) in the early 1960s showed an outline of a transmitting station building, a radio transmitting antenna tower, a map of Europe with the European part of the Soviet Union in red, a barbed wire, and sound waves emanating from a point […]

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The Year 1968 in the History of Samizdat

Curator — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 05:50:46 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum The recent death of Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva brings into focus not only her contributions to improving the lives of millions of people but also the historic role played by the American-supported Radio Liberty (RL), which together with its sister station, Radio Free Europe, contributed to breaking […]

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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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Radio Free Europe 1966: A Girl Behind Barbed Wire Fence Ad

Curator — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 15:08:33 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum The Crusade for Freedom was the name of an advertising campaign designed to get Americans to contribute money to Radio Free Europe which broadcast radio programs in various languages to the captive nations behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. The ad seen here is from 1966 and appeared in […]

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The Obama ‘Reset’ with Russia

Curator — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 06:22:38 +0000

OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn The Obama “Reset” with Russia By Ted Lipien Hillary Clinton seemed to have had some understanding of how Russian propaganda works when she made her critical comments about the Broadcasting Board of Governors in 2013 to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, calling the […]

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Radio Liberty Fails on Russian Interference

Curator — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 05:14:52 +0000

OPINION How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn Radio Liberty Fails on Russian Interference By Ted Lipien The vast majority of political propaganda and disinformation in U.S. media is originated domestically by American commentators, partisan think-tanks, reporters and social media users. But all too often, U.S. government officials, as well as journalists, both government-hired as in […]

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