During RFE's earliest years of existence, the CIA and U.S. RFE/RL received funds covertly from the CIA until 1972. Radio Free Europe was created and grew in its early years through the efforts of the National Committee for a Free Europe (NCFE), an anti-communist CIA front organization that was formed by Allen Dulles in New York City in 1949.
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Newsroom in Munich, 1994 European operations have been significantly reduced since the end of the Cold War.Įarly history Radio Free Europe Another broadcast site was operated at the village of Glória do Ribatejo, east of Lisbon, Portugal, from 1951 to 1996. RFE/RL was headquartered at Englischer Garten in Munich, West Germany, from 1949 to 1995. Communist governments frequently sent agents to infiltrate RFE's headquarters, and the KGB regularly jammed its signals. In addition, it has 680 employees at its headquarters and corporate office in Washington, D.C.ĭuring the Cold War, RFE was broadcast to Soviet satellite states, including the Baltic states, and RL targeted the Soviet Union RFE was founded as an anti-communist propaganda source in 1949 by the National Committee for a Free Europe, while RL was founded two years later. The organization has been headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, since 1995, and has 21 local bureaus with over 500 core staff and 1,300 stringers and freelancers in countries throughout their broadcast region. RFE/RL broadcasts in 27 languages to 23 countries. Jeremy Bransten is acting editor-in-chief of RFE. federal government international broadcasting services.
Agency for Global Media, an independent government agency overseeing all U.S. RFE/RL is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation supervised by the U.S. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ( RFE/ RL) is a United States government funded media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed".
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