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…
Boris Nemtsov Defended Radio Liberty Journalists
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary We can report with some satisfaction that Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty…
Kirk Douglas on Radio Free Europe and Voice of America
By Ted Lipien As Putin’s propagandists are again spreading lies around the world and trying to undermine American…
Memorial service in Prague for former Radio Liberty senior Russian commentator Lev Roitman
BBG – USAGM Watch A memorial service for journalist, publisher and lawyer Lev Roitman, a former Radio Free…
HISTORY Russian propaganda at WWII Voice of America
BBG – USAGM Watch History Russian propaganda influence in the United States is not new. “I established contact…
Warts and All from Voice of America? Not Against Hollywood
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary This is clearly a minor sin by Voice of America’s (VOA) current standards…
Former Voice of America Russian Service chief Natasha Clarkson dead at 87
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Former Voice of America broadcaster, editor and Russian Service chief Natalia “Natasha” Clarkson…
VOA ignores VP Pence’s WWII anniversary speech in Poland
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary As of 3:00 AM Central European time, September 2, 2019, the U.S. tax-funded…
Voice of America VOA English News Blows Off 80th Anniversary of Hitler-Stalin Pact
By Ted Lipien Today, August 23, marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact…