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For safetys sake many RL employees in Munich who were former Soviet citizens wanted to live in the United States. far away from the Communist border which was only some 80 miles to the east. Accommodations were accordingly made to resolve this problem in the form of the U.S. Division. Moreover. largescale migration of refugees to New York from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the postwar period had already created in this country a potential source of talent for RL. Accordingly. efforts were made to recruit staff from among them. As early as 1952 scripts were being prepared in New York. and by 1955 a Radio Programming Support Division was being organized in the United States. this was the beginning of the U.S.