One of the newest exhibits of the online Cold War Radio Museum is an envelope addressed to the news department of the BBC Polish Service, posted in Great Britain in March 1940. The envelope has the inscription “PASSED BY CENSOR,”...
Konstanty Broel Plater’s Office of War Information (OWI) Personnel Record Card. Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien We know of only one Voice of America (VOA) journalist, Konstanty Broel Plater, who resigned from his job at the U.S. government...
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Updated February 17, 2024 Marek Walicki, the former journalist of the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe and the Polish section of the Voice of America, is the author of Z Polski Ludowej do Wolnej Europy...
Cold War Radio Museum During the short tenure of Michael Pack, the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO appointed by the Trump administration, the agency honored the former Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service editor and broadcaster...
Right after the declaration of the martial law in Poland in December 1981, U.S.-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Europe expanded their radio broadcasts. These broadcasts continued during the martial law. VOA and Radio Free Europe interviewed...
Toward the end of the Cold War in the 1980s, the Republican administration of conservative President Ronald Reagan greatly increased spending on U.S. international broadcasting to the Soviet Union and to other communist-ruled nations. Broadcasts to...
Cold War Radio Museum The Cold War was almost over in 1989-1990. The Voice of America was looking for new ways to deliver news to Eastern Europe. The bilingual VOA Polish-English newscast was one of several projects initiated in the VOA Polish...
Originally posted on December 4, 2013 Today’s political prisoners who are fighting for democracy and human rights are still being held in China, Iran and in many other countries. While much of Central and Eastern Europe, previously under Soviet...
In a 1989 Worldnet television program moderated by Ted Lipien, then director of the Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service, and broadcast on VOA Polish radio program, Polish Television and Polish Radio, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski discussed historic...
“Hunger for God and Love” – Interview with Cardinal Karol Wojtyła recorded conducted in August 1976 in Washington, D.C. by Ted Lipien for the Voice of America (VOA) This is a link to a digitized full version of the interview. The radio interview...