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Recordings of the Radio Free Europe program broadcasted during Hungarian Revolution '56 have been found in German archives, digitalized and made public. more
 
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Ronald Reagan for RFE
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010
A young Ronald Reagan explains in television commercial the new funded Radio Free Europe initiative and encourage to contribute for Crusade for Freedom. 0'56
 
This is Radio Free Europe
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010
This 1964 film, narrated by Polish broadcaster Andrzej Krzeczunowicz, gives an overview of Radio Free Europes news-gathering and audience research, its production center in Munich, and its transmission operations in Germany and Portugal. Produced by the Free Europe Committee, the parent organization of Radio Free Europe, the film helped publicize RFE in the United States. It thus includes solicitations for contributions to the RFE Fund, successor to the Crusade for Freedom, which helped finance RFE. 28'17
 
RFE/RL Broadcasting to Poland 1950-1997
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Sunday, 09 November 2008
There exists some confusion about both the beginning and the end of  RFE broadcasting to Poland. Usually it is supposed Polish RFE broadcasts were on the air from 1952 till 1994, produced in Munich, Germany. In fact it started 2 years earlier in New York and ended 3 years later in Warsaw. Read remarks by A. Ross Johnson, former Director, RFE (1988-1991) and Acting President, RFE/RL (1994).
 
RFE Press Statement, 1994
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Sunday, 09 November 2008
Document from June 1994. RFE Director Robert Gillette announcement about ceasing Polish and Czech operations in Munich and founding new broadcasting entities in Warsaw and Prague, which should continue Polish and Czech language services. read
 
New recording found
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008
A sound recording from May 3, 1952, of retired admiral Harold B. "Min" Miller was recently discovered in Hoover's Radio Free Europe archives. In the recording, Miller, president of the National Committee for a Free Europe, is announcing the launch of RFE's broadcasts from Munich, Germany, to Poland. Digitally restored by Hoover Archives' preservation staff, the recording can be heard once again. link
 
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