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- 1996 Feb 16 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Jan Nowak, Director of the Polish service of Radio Free Europe, in Munich, 1951-1976, relating to the establishment of Radio Free Europe (RFE) to counter communist controlled media in East Central Europe, and the role of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in funding the organisation; policies on news and Polish appeal in broadcast; attitude of Nowak to US State Department attempts at censorship of the broadcasts, 1956; soviet infiltration of US supported underground movements in Poland; infiltration of RFE by Soviet supporter Andre Chekovic; significance of RFE in the fall of the communist regime in Poland, 1989; and Nowak's views on policies of Henry Alfred Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1972, during the Cold War. 24pp
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