Grants would be authorized after consultation with the Secretary of State * and Director of Central Intelligence. and with the concurrence of a majority of the deputy administrators. to private. nonprofit organizations engaged in broadcasting. publishing. corresponding or otherwise acting to keep the spirit and hope of freedom alive in Communistdominated countries. It is not possible to foresee all of the ways in which such an authority would carry out its basic purposes. But the following are some that readily come to mind: (a) The publication of timely information. both about the Free World and about developments in the captive countries. and the distribution of this material behind the Iron Curtain. (b) The provision of mobile. shortwave. radio transmitters to facilitate broadcasts behind the Iron Curtain and avoid the systematic "jamming" of foreign broadcasts by the Communists. (c) The importation into captive countries of increased numbers of small. inexpensive radio broadcast receivers. (d) The presentation by radio of additional folkprograms for the peoples of each captive country to keep fresh the memory of historic. national traditions and the love of spiritual values. and to reveal the cultural freedom in the nonCommunist world. (e) The provision of special training opportunities for -persons participating in exchange programs with captive countries. to enable them to observe and report more helpfully the conditions both in the Free World and behind the Iron Curtain. (f) The timely arrangement and spreading of programs of noncooperation with the Communist regimes and economic slowdowns that may assist the drives for freedom. (g) The publication in the free world of works of literature by refugee authors and poets to help keep distinctive. national cultures alive and developing. despite efforts in the Iron Curtain countries to obliterate such cultures. (h) The gathering and publication of eyewitness accounts of refugees from Iron Curtain countries exposing the conduct of Communist tyranny there. and so forth. I. of course. exclude from the intended objectives or activities of such a freedom authority any premature incitements of revolts. This will take careful doing: to keep the hope and will to freedom active and ready. but to help it operate within. limits that do not bring down upon it the crushing might of Soviet Russian arms and retaliation.
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