Based in Europe. the socalled "freedom radios" began their broadcasts in the early 1950s. a period when ideological fervor on both sides of the EastWest confrontation was reaching a near frenzy. Radio Liberty focused upon the Soviet Union. Radio Free Europe upon the Eastern European satellites. Each radio presented itself as a spontaneous creation. run by freedomloving refugees financed by dimes from free world schoolchildren. Secretly. each was the organizational and financial instrument of the CIA. staffed by expatriates who sought the overthrow of Soviet rule. Their activities were a direct extension of the global antiCommunist crusade upon which we had embarked.
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