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Title: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty corporate records
Date (inclusive): 1945-2006
Collection Number: 2000C71
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection:
English,
German,
Russian,
Polish
Physical Description:
circa 4000 linear feet
(4000.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The records of the American radio broadcasting organization operating Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) include
correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial and legal records, technical specifications, opinion survey data, serial issues,
other publications, and microfilm relating to operations of Radio Free Europe in broadcasting to audiences in Eastern Europe
and of Radio Liberty in broadcasting to audiences in the Soviet Union, as well as non-broadcast operations of RFE/RL's predecessor,
the Free Europe Committee, Inc. Digital copies of select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Creator:
RFE/RL.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
RFE/RL welcomes the re-use, republication, and redistribution for research and educational purposes of audio, video, text,
and graphic content produced by RFE/RL, Inc., its legal predecessor organizations, and its constituent language Services.
Users of RFE/RL content from this collection must include in their work the information: "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
content, including but not limited to recordings of broadcasts, program scripts, graphic and video content and web-based content,
is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. Used with the permission of RFE/RL, Inc., 1201 Connecticut Ave NW,
Washington, DC 20036, USA. www.rferl.org."
Users of RFE/RL content cannot alter the meaning, name or integrity of the content. The sale of RFE/RL content is strictly
prohibited. Some of the RFE/RL content within this finding aid may contain content created by outside parties ("Third-Party
Content"). Before using any RFE/RL products containing Third-Party Content, you must first obtain permission from the owner
of the rights to the Third-Party Content.
Unlimited reproduction for institutional or other use of RFE/RL content found within this finding aid is not permitted without
the express written permission of RFE/RL. Learn more about the Terms of Use for RFE/RL content on the RFE/RL website. Inquiries
about copyright permission involving materials in RFE/RL archival collections should be emailed to: Martins Zvaners, RFE/RL
Deputy Director of Communications.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000 with subsequent additions.
[Identification of item], Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty corporate records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution
Library & Archives
Digital copies of select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty corporate records at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives includes extensive correspondence
between Free Europe Committee (FEC) and American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism (AMCOMLB) officials and Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials. From 1949 to 1959 this correspondence was conducted using pseudonyms. Thereafter, until
CIA oversight ended in 1971, it was conducted anonymously between "The President" [FEC or AMCOMLIB] and "The Executive Committee,"
"Advisory Committee," or "Board of Trustees" [CIA]. This appendix provides the identification of the FEC officials who wrote
in pseudonym and the identification of those CIA officials responsible for FEC and AMCOMLIB issues whose true names and pseudonyms
have been released by CIA. Identification of persons referenced in the correspondence indicates their organizational role
and authority and helps in assessing the significance of the documents.
Free Europe Committee Officials
- PSEUDONYM
- REAL NAME
- John Free
- DeWitt C. Poole
- William Freely
- Frederic R. Dolbeare
- William L. Digby
- Spencer Phoenix
- Merton T. Stone
- Frank Altschul
- Kenneth J. Walters
- Robert E. Lang
- Frank C. Kilday
- John Schroeder
- Charles Dempsey
- Herbert Gross
- Albert Robinson
- William E. Griffith
- H. Adams
- Alfred W. Held
- Michael J. Peters
- J. Barry Mahool
- Ray D. Tarlston
- Ray E. Millard
- Thorne E. Minett
- Ray E. Millard
- James C. Hayden
- James R. Burton
- Thomas E. Marschal
- Thomas E. Myers
- Michael E. Thompson
- Thomas E. Myers
- John L. Damewood
- H. Gates Lloyd
- Marc Petticord
- John Leich
- John L. Waterfield
- C. D. Jackson
- Bischop E. Dodge
- Lewis Galantiere
- Dorothy J. Lucker
- Ann Hester
- Sam E. Teslove
- Nancy Viccellio
- Leonard I. Stamm
- Admiral H. B. Miller
- Thaddeus Z. Abernathy
- Abbot Washburn
- Walter Edson
- Edward Welch
- Martin C. Johnson
- J. Clayton Miller
- Paul Dexter
- Stetson S. Holmes
- James W. Nicholson
- Konrad Kellen
- Douglas Neich
- Theodore C. Augustine
- David Powers
- Samuel S. Walker
- Whiting Stratton
- Levering Tyson
- Bruce Farmer
- Bernard Yarrow
- Judith Flint
- Irene Hood
- Daniel Church
- Whitney Shephardson
- Robert C. Newton
- George P. E. Cesar
- William Melville
- Richard M. Hunt
- Joseph P. Bradford
- Lawrence E. De Neufville
- Mrs. Ruth D. Cobedent
- Barbara G. Bowen
- John J. Sullivan
- Joseph F. Glennon
- Frank Lloyd
- Frank Wright
- Owen Taylor
- Thomas E. Brown Jr.
- Travis A. Albery
- Robert F. Kelley
- Martin L. Cantwell
- Robert F. Kelley
- Carey Metcalfe
- W. J. Convery Egan
- Franklin Woorham
- Frederick T. Merrill
- James P. O'Brien
- Robert F. Byrnes
- Robert G. Bixley
- Francis M. Hand
- Walter P. O' Dwyer
- Willis D. Crittenberger
CIA Officials Overseeing RFE and RL (Partial List)
- PSEUDONYM
- PERSON
- Robert A. Ascham
- Allen Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence
- Harold S. Witting
- Frank Wisner, Deputy Director for Plans
- not released
- Tom Braden, Chief, International Organizations Division (IOD), 1951-1954
- not released
- Cord Meyer, Chief, IOD, 1954-1957
- William D. Playton
- Tracy Barnes, Chief, Political and Psychological Warfare Division
- Eliot B. Judane
- Emmons Brown (IOD)
- Philip D. Abramson
- Emmons Brown (IOD)
- not released
- Robert "Bob" King (IOD)
- not released
- Harry Reis (IOD)
- not released
- John C. Richards (IOD)
- not released
- Arthur Cox (IOD)
- not released
- James "Jim" William Brown (IOD)
- not released
- Ernest I. Harrison (IOD)
- not released
- Arne Ekstrom (IOD)
American radio broadcasting organization operating Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.
Scope and Content of Collection
The complexity of this collection for the researcher as well as the archivist is manifold. The most salient fact characterizing
the RFE/RL materials is their sheer volume, which necessitated their breakdown into two collections: the corporate records,
consisting of the organizational and administrative documentation of RFE/RL (including its supervisory, subordinate, and affiliate
organizations), and the broadcast archive, consisting of sound recordings of broadcasts, scripts, and associated documentation.
Each of these units therefore has its own register. This register describes the corporate records only.
Acknowledgements
This register could not have been compiled without the participation of a large group of individuals. They are listed here
in alphabetical order: Suzanne Ament, Rodica Claudino, Laura Cosovanu, Venera Djumataeva, Jack Doran, German Dziebel, Lenka
Fedorova, Irene Franks, Lechoslaw Gawlikowski, Ilja Gruen, Alyssa Haerle, Polina Ilieva, A. Ross Johnson, Snetu Karania, Dev
Kumari Khalsa, Mikolaj Kunicki, Lijuan Li, Natalya Mislavskaya, Andrew Moore, Dmitry Morozov, Ekaterina Neklioudova, Blanka
Pasternak, Natalia Reshetova, Victoria Saenz, Mike Schaefer, Anatol Shmelev, Nick Siekierski, Sandra Staklis, Catalin Stoica,
Quincy Tanner, Dennis Trapido, Ema Vyroubalova.
The RFE/RL Corporate records have been broken into two record groups, one for the Washington Office and one for the Munich-Prague
Office. Under each there are multiple sub-groups and series within. As of 2022, the finding aid is currently undergoing conversion
out of its existing individual PDF format and being transferred to a fully searchable EAD-encoded finding aid for the first
time since it's acquisition. During navigation of this finding aid, researchers will still notice some Sub-Groups still in
PDF format, while others have already completed conversion.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Sig Mickelson papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Arch Puddington collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Radio broadcasting -- Soviet Union
Radio broadcasting -- Europe, Eastern
Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe