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7 unusual facts about Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty


Dan Coe

Shortly after an interview on Radio Free Europe, Coe was found dead in his apartment on 19 October 1981.

Iain Benson

He has been interviewed on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Vatican Radio, Reuters and various radio stations in England and South Africa.

Malcolm Andrews

In the early 1970s, he spent five years in Munich working for the US State Department at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which broadcast news behind the Iron Curtain.

Mirza Khazar

From August 1976 to October 1985, Mirza Khazar worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany.

Oberwiesenfeld Army Airfield

It was used as a military airfield by the US Army until October 1957, although the United States Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast from the former airport terminal from 1953 until 1968 when it was moved to other facilities.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Stasi files opened after 1989 indicated that the bombing was carried out by a group under the direction of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (AKA Carlos the Jackal), and paid for by Nicolae Ceaușescu, president of Romania.

Vitaly Portnikov

Since 1989, he works as the analyst of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta, specializing in post-Soviet countries, and cooperates with the Russian and Ukrainian services of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.


Alek D. Epstein

The speakers at the presentation included Victor Bondarenko, Marat Gelman, Roman Bagdasarov and others, while an extensive interview with the author was published on the website of the Radio Free Europe.

Andrei Tsygankov

He has spoken at various forums and has contributed to Asia Times, Johnson's Russia List, Moscow Times, Korea Herald, Los Angeles Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russia Profile, Voice of America, and other media publications.

Bogusław Sonik

In 1985 he began his work as journalist at the Polish Section of Radio France International and BBC, he also cooperated with the Polish Section of Deutschlandfunk and he had his own program on Radio Free Europe.

Candle demonstration in Bratislava

Information about the event was propagated through Vatican Radio and, after the event, by Radio Free Europe and Voice of America.

Censorship in the People's Republic of Poland

In addition to the censorship of the publications, the state also supported jamming of foreign radio and television stations, such as Radio Free Europe and Voice of America among others.

Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

In the United States an organization with a similar name, the American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, was founded in the late 1940s, and became known for their CIA-run and later Congress-funded propaganda broadcaster Radio Liberty, which operated from Munich, in West Germany.

Denis Denisenko

He was mentioned in Sky and Telescope twice and gave interviews on Russian News Service, Radio Liberty, Gazeta newspaper, and the BBC Russian Service in 2007.

Erkin Alptekin

In 1971, due to his father's connections, he landed a job at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Munich.

Ion Iliescu

In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României (rank of ceremonial knighthood) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.

Johannes Weinrich

He faced trial for the 1975 rocket-propelled grenade attacks on El Al flights, 1981 bombing of Radio Free Europe in Munich, 1983 attack on the Saudi Ambassador to Greece, and the bombing of the French cultural center the same year.

Radio in Sri Lanka

The International Broadcasting Bureau broadcasts programmes from Voice of America, Radio Azadi, Radio Free Afghanistan, Radio Free Asia, Radio Liberty and Radio Sawa on short wave using the relay station at Iranawila.


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