Senator Biden and Other Leaders on Transatlantic Relations – VOA’s New Europe Review 2004
By Ted Lipien In 2004, foreign language broadcasters in the Voice of America (VOA) Eurasia Division in Washington,…
HISTORY First Voice of America Director of Halloween Fake Radio News Fame
USAGM Watch Halloween Commentary By Ted Lipien Happy Halloween! But don’t be fooled by fake radio news. Orson…
HISTORY Refugee Voice of America Journalists Stood Up to the Anti-Reagan VOA Newsroom and Won the Cold War
By Ted Lipien “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The…
Edward R. Murrow Would Not Have Approved of Partisan or Chinese Communist Propaganda at Voice of America
OPINION by Ted Lipien Voice of America (VOA) directors and some of its current and former editors and…
HISTORY WWII Voice of America Communist Propaganda to Yugoslavia
Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Thanks to several lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, the U.S. Congress…
EXCLUSIVE SIDEBAR: VOA Broadcast Managers Had Access to Classified State Department Material
OPINION By Dan Robinson For many years, Voice of America broadcast managers had access to classified State Department…
Communist secret police in Poland spied on Voice of America’s Willis Conover to shut down Radio Free Europe
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Polish communist intelligence service and secret police spied on Voice…
HISTORY Warsaw Uprising Betrayed by Pro-Stalin WWII Voice of America
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary August 1, 2020 marks the 76th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw…
70 Years of Radio Free Europe
USAGM Watch History U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO Michael Pack said in a message to Radio…
Happy Birthday Radio Free Europe
USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien Happy Birthday Radio Free Europe! I had lived in communist-ruled Poland until…
HISTORY Soviet Block Jamming of Western Freedom Radios
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Podcasts Toward the end of the Cold War in the 1980s, the…
HISTORY How Congress Exposed, Defunded and Stopped Domestic U.S. Government Propaganda in 1943
During World War II, the federal government’s Office of War Information (OWI), where Voice of America (VOA) radio…
Voice of America Doctor Who Brought AIDS Information to USSR and Saved Lives
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum At one time during the Cold War, the taxpayer-funded, U.S.…
Voice of America Polish Service Broadcaster Irene Broni Resisted Nazis and Communists
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Irena Radwańska Broni: Returning to the U.S. citizenship oath ceremony…
1949 QSL Card from Voice of America in New York
USAGM WATCH HISTORY When Mr. Ingvar Nyberg, a shortwave radio listener in Lund, Sweden, requested a QSL card…
Voice of America WWII News Editor and Future Stalin Prize Winner Howard Fast Died on This Day in 2003
Howard Fast, best-selling American author, Communist Party USA member, and journalist who in 1943 was the chief writer…