Howard Fast – BBG and USAGM Watch

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HISTORY Flora Wovschin — Codename ZORA — Was The Most Active Soviet Spy But Not The Most Valuable Agent of Influence at WWII Voice of America

November 9, 2022

USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien Following reports that due to multiple security violations the Office of Personnel…

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Beware of Government Propaganda “Experts”

June 5, 2022

Disinformation governance by government propaganda experts can be dangerous, judging by the record of the early officials in…

Sanford “Sandy” Ungar, a journalist, author, and educator, served as the 24th Director of the Voice of America. Prior to becoming VOA Director, Ungar served as Dean of the School of Communication at American University and had an extensive and varied career as an international journalist. He has worked at Foreign Policy magazine, The Washington Post, The Atlantic magazine, UPI, Newsweek magazine, and NPR. After leaving VOA, Ungar was president of Goucher College in Towson, Maryland from 2001 to 2014. In spring 2015 Ungar joined Georgetown University, where he is director of The Free Speech Project.

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Asking About Voice of America’s Stalin Peace Prize Winner May Be McCarthyism or Merely Amusing, Former VOA Director Said

April 11, 2022

Former Voice of America (VOA) director Sanford J. Ungar, who served under President Clinton from 1999 to 2001,…

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80 Years of VOA: Different Names of the Voice of America

January 31, 2022

USAGM Watch Commentary 80 years ago today, on February 1, 1942, the first Voice of America (VOA) radio…

Howard Fast OWI Personnel Record Card Voice of America at 80

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Voice of America at 80 – VOA’s Pro-Soviet Fellow Travelers and Lessons for Today

January 24, 2022

Voice of America at 80 – the hidden record of VOA’s pro-Soviet fellow travelers, Howard Fast and John…

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Different Names of the Voice of America

December 5, 2020

Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien The U.S. taxpayer-funded and U.S. government-operated international radio broadcaster established in…

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1949 QSL Card from Voice of America in New York

March 15, 2020

USAGM WATCH HISTORY When Mr. Ingvar Nyberg, a shortwave radio listener in Lund, Sweden, requested a QSL card…

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HISTORY Russian propaganda at WWII Voice of America

January 18, 2020

BBG – USAGM Watch History Russian propaganda influence in the United States is not new. “I established contact…

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Warts and All from Voice of America? Not Against Hollywood

January 6, 2020

BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary This is clearly a minor sin by Voice of America’s (VOA) current standards…

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Voice of America VOA English News Blows Off 80th Anniversary of Hitler-Stalin Pact

August 23, 2019

By Ted Lipien Today, August 23, marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact…

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HISTORY Warsaw Uprising Betrayed by Pro-Stalin WWII Voice of America

July 30, 2019

BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary August 1, 2020 marks the 76th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw…

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HISTORY Collusion: How the State Department tried to save Voice of America from Soviet influence in WWII

May 13, 2019

BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The history of the Voice of America has been written around the false…

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HISTORY Stalin Prize-Winning Chief Writer of Voice of America News

March 12, 2019

BBG – USAGM Watch History March 12 is the anniversary of the death in 2003 of Howard Fast,…