Contents

 

Introduction           

 

Prologue         

1     The Russians Started It 

2     The Lonely Listener in the Bush   

3     An Instrument of War     

 

I     The Start of the Cold War (1945-1947)

1     One-two to the Jaw  

2     BBC - Programs in the National Interest   

3     VOA - The Illegitimate Child at a Family Reunion          

 

II    The Beginning of the Age of Jamming (1947-1950)            

1     Jamming - The Deprived Volga Boatman    

2     BBC - Mad Agitators and Disruptionists   

3     VOA - Keeping the Soviet Bear Busy 

4     CIA - And The Truth Shall Make You Free 

 

III    Starting RFE and RL (1950-1953)

1     RFE - Harder than Popularizing Cornflakes 

2     RL - Implacable Struggle   

3     VOA - Not if it's by Rimsky-Korsakov   

4     BBC - The Voice of Britain Must Whisper    

5     The Audience - Is Anybody Out There? 

 

IV    Uprisings (1953-1956)

1     East Germany and Czechoslovakia: Better Pay - Less Talk       

2     Poland and Hungary - Crisis for RFE  

3     VOA - Why the VOA Should be Abolished  

4     BBC - Hobbled but by No Means Crippled   

 

V    The Beginnings of Détente (1956-1963)

1     USSR - Shooting Themselves in Both Feet     

2     RFE & RL - Doubts and Disputes     

3     VOA - Hard Sell or Soft Sell? 

4     BBC - Be Beastly to the Communists - or Not?                      

 

VI   Other Major Broadcasters     

1     Vatican Radio          

2     Radio France Internationale   

3     Radio Canada International    

4     Radio in the American Sector, RIAS Berlin

5      Deutsche Welle         

 

VII   Clearer Airwaves (1963-1968)

1     USSR - No longer Saturday's News on Monday     

2     RFE & RL - O What a Tangled Web the CIA Wove                   

3     VOA - The New Sound

4     BBC - To Fill the Bucket of Misinformation   

5     The Audience - An Occasional Worthwhile Thing on BBC           

 

VIII  Czechoslovak Invasion and After (1968-1979)

1     Helsinki - Hoist with Their Own Petard 

2     RFE & RL - To the Graveyard of Cold War Relics                 

3     VOA - The Voice is Not Muted  

4     BBC - Russia is Not for Dancing    

5     Markov - Murdered Because He Told the Truth

 

IX    Solidarity (1979-89)  

1     Poland - If You Would Close Your Radio Free Europe ... ...          

2     USSR - The End of the Lie    

3     RFE/RL - Kitchen of the Stinking Fish of False Reports          

4     VOA - Provocative Insinuations     

5     BBC - Mongooses Trying to Destroy Everything Snakelike.       

 

X     Revolutions (1989)     

1     Poland - Influence of the Bagel-shaped Round Table      

2     Cross-border Television - The Smuggled Camera                 

3      Manipulation of the Radios - Mysterious Deaths                 

4     Impact of the Radios - Froth on the Milk Rises             

5     The Audience - Education in Another Spirit     

 

Epilogue - Gorbachev Listens to the Voices 

 

Chronology       

 

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