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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
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The Open Society Archives, custodian of the RFE/RL research materials, has obtained a commitment from the Visegrad Fund to support short-term research fellowships at OSA for work in the RFE/RL and other collections. The announcement is at link Please forward to others who may be interested. |
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 |
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The paper depicts the origins of broadcasts with Josef Swiatlo, a senior Polish secret police official, who defected to the West in December 1953. His revelations of terror within as well as by the Polish secret police and Communist Party led to a shakeup of the secret police apparatus and helped prepare the way for the Polish October in 1956. The paper by A. Ross Johnson is a expanded text of remarks presented at the Conference “Radio Wolna Europa w walce z komunizmem” [Radio Free Europe in struggle with communism], which was held in Warsaw, November 6-7, 2009, in connection with the celebrations of the 20th Anniversary of the Regaining of Freedom and Collapse of Communism in Central Europe. read |
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 |
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Jane L. Curry, Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Ca., shows the evidence is that many officials in the Polish police and Party listened covertly to Radio Free Europe. The then Polish elites used Radio Free Europe and other external media as a source of information and argument in internal battles; foreign radios influlenced even in all probability their decision making. The paper was prepared for the Conference “Radio Wolna Europa w walce z komunizmem” [Radio Free Europe in struggle with communism], which was held in Warsaw, November 6-7, 2009. read |
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 |
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1960 Crusade for Freedom / Radio Free Europe Fund film details the visit of 60 "Trippers", who visited RFE in Munich and Gloria, Portugal, plus the Iron Curtain on the Czech-German border and Berlin (before the Wall). Richard Cummings comment: "Propaganda, if you will, but still a fascinating look at RFE in 1960 in both Munich and Gloria, Portugal". 27'25 |
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Friday, 18 December 2009 |
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Romanian Institute for Recent History (IRIR) in cooperation with former members of the RFE Romanian Desk team initiated a campaign for establisment in Bucharest a Free Europe Center of Research and Documentation. |
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 |
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The United States House of Representatives passed the resolution honoring Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on its 60th anniversary and commending both its past and present adherence to the democratic principles on which it was founded in 1949. |
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