Richard H. Cummings Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/richard-h-cummings/ Cold War Radio History Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:34:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-CWRM-Mic2022-32x32.jpg Richard H. Cummings Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/richard-h-cummings/ 32 32 The Radio Free Europe Fund: Civic Pageantry and Covert Funding in the Cold War https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-radio-free-europe-fund-civic-pageantry-and-covert-funding-in-the-cold-war/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-radio-free-europe-fund-civic-pageantry-and-covert-funding-in-the-cold-war/#respond Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:55:54 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=23954 How the Radio Free Europe Fund used civic pageantry, fundraising, and public campaigns to support a covert Cold War broadcasting operation. Illustrated with archival photographs and documents.

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-radio-free-europe-fund-civic-pageantry-and-covert-funding-in-the-cold-war/feed/ 0 Crusade for Freedom: Young women tell stories of lovelessness in Kremlin-controlled countries https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/crusade-for-freedom-young-women-tell-stories-of-lovelessness-in-kremlin-controlled-countries/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/crusade-for-freedom-young-women-tell-stories-of-lovelessness-in-kremlin-controlled-countries/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:55:31 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=9844 The 1950s “Crusade for Freedom” media publicity campaign in the United States and to some degree in Western Europe was ostensibly for the purpose of raising private money for Radio Free Europe (RFE), the U.S. government-sponsored radio station in West Germany. In reality, these private donations amounting to a few million dollars a year were […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/crusade-for-freedom-young-women-tell-stories-of-lovelessness-in-kremlin-controlled-countries/feed/ 0 Radio Free Europe Fundraising During the Cold War https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/radio-free-europe-fundraising-during-cold-war/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/radio-free-europe-fundraising-during-cold-war/#respond Sun, 02 Feb 2020 19:20:59 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=8893 This Cold War Radio Museum updated post covers Radio Free Europe advertising as well as a specific example of fundraising through the Federal Service Joint Crusade Campaigns in 1963. RADIO FREE EUROPE   80,000,000   Captive People Are Depending On You   The Communist-dominated people of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria depend on your […]

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