Cold War Radio Museum During testimony on January 23, 2013 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton stated: The Broadcasting Board of Governors is practically defunct in...
— Nelson Poynter, U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Information, January 11, 1942 Cold War Radio Museum “To sell the religion of democracy” is believed to be the first written though unofficial mission statement describing the purpose of the...
Cold War Radio Museum an independent Russian journalist,Dr. Nikolay Rudenskiy, warned in 2011 about “pro-Putin” bias of the Voice of America Russian Service. Dr. Rudenskiy was hired by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in 2011 to evaluate...
Cold War Radio Museum State Department diplomat and Soviet affairs specialist who was Voice of America director at the time (from October 1949 to September 1952), Foy D. Kohler, denied all the charges of Soviet propaganda influence within the...
Maciej Wierzyński at Voice of America One of the most successful and popular Polish-American refugee journalists, Maciej Wierzyński, described his tenure at the Voice of America in the 1990s as the “most frustrating period of his life.” By Ted...
Voice of America (VOA) 1967 USPS stamp First Day Cover (FDC) by philatelic artist Ralph Dyer in the Cold War Radio online virtual museum. The hand-painted First Day Cover (FDC) by philatelic artist Ralph Dyar for the 1967 Voice of America stamp is...
Voice of America QSL postcard circa 1949.
Cold War Radio Museum On August 20, 1980, the Soviet Union resumed jamming radio broadcasts by the Voice of America (VOA), the BBC, and the Deutsche Welle (DW). Soviet jamming was a sign of the effectiveness of Western radio broadcasts. Radio Free...
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum and Voice of America – Hidden History Information Bulletin, The Office of US High Commissioner for Germany, June 1952. The Information Bulletin of the Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany had a...
Cold War Radio Museum The United States Information Agency (USIA) was created on August 1, 1953, by Executive Order 10477 issued by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. USIA served as the public diplomacy agency of the United States during most of...