|
The Hoover Institution has been entrusted with the memoirs, papers, and sound recordings of a number of key figures associated with RFE/RL's development and success. Among them are
Charles Ablard
Included in the Ablard collection are correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, and clippings related to Ablard's 1980-1984 tenure on the Board for International Broadcasting, the body which at that time oversaw RFE/RL's activities. [+]
Alexandru Bunescu
Among the speeches, writings, lecture notes, and printed matter contained in the Bunescu collection are many of the scripts for the programs that he recorded for RFE and VOA in the 1950s and 1960s. [+]
Nicolae Caranfil
The Caranfil collection includes some documentation of RFE’s activities during his association with the station. Of particular interest are the scripts that Caranfil drafted before RFE initiated regular Romanian-language programming.[+]
Grigore Constantinescu
Among the papers of Constaninescu, Romanian ambassador to Great Britain from 1946 to 1947 and participant in the Assembly of Captive European Nations, are transcripts and tapes of radio broadcasts made for RFE regarding communism in Romania and émigré politics. [+]
Liviu Floda (Collection Description at the Online Archive of California)
This collection features scripts and sound recordings created in the course of Floda's twenty-year career with RFE's Romanian service, stretching from 1974 to 1994. Floda covered such topics as Romanian politics, society, and culture, civil liberties in Romania, and the activities of Romanians abroad. [+]
Peter Heine
Hoover holds the 1997 memoir of Peter Heine, administrative assistant to the director of RFE's Munich office from 1949 to 1951. The memoir features an account of the founding and early activities of RFE. [+]
Marek Lehnert
The Lehnert collection contains dispatches and sound recordings on Polish political conditions and Polish-Vatican relations prepared by RFE's Polish correspondent in Rome during the 1980s.
Radomir Luza
Included in the papers of the Czech émigré historian are reports and broadcast transcripts prepared for RFE's Czechoslovak service.
Sig Mickelson (Collection Description at the Online Archive of California)
A major portion of the Mickelson collection consists of materials gathered by the former president of CBS News and the first president of the merged RFE/RL in preparing of his book America's Other Voice: The Story of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. In addition to correspondence, notes, conference papers, and press releases, the collection includes audiotapes of Mickelson's interviews with more than 80 RFE/RL staffers and government officials associated with the Radios. [+]
Zdislaw Nadjer
Nadjer's papers cover the period 1959-1994 and include correspondence, memoranda, broadcast scripts, press summaries, and clippings related to his tenure as director of RFE's Polish service from 1982 to 1987 and to his later position as adviser to President Lech Walesa. [+]
Ferdinand Peroutka
The Peroutka collection includes the correspondence, memoranda, and writings of Peroutka, chief of RFE's Czechoslovak desk from 1950 to 1964.
Arch Puddington
Among the documents collected by Puddington, deputy director of RFE/RL's New York bureau from 1985 to 1993, are the research materials for his recent book Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, and sound recordings. [+]
Jack Quinn
The Quinn collection contains writings, printed materials, and photographs gathered by Quinn, manager of technical operations for Radio Free Europe from 1952 to 1956. [+]
Henryk Rozpedowski
The Rozpedowski collection consists of four boxes of scripts and memoranda relating to RFE broadcasts to Poland.
Captain Henri Smith-Hutton
The Smith-Hutton collection contains transcripts of an oral interview relating to the postwar activities of the Radio Free Europe in France. [+]
Gene Sosin
The bulk of the Sosin collection (correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, and transcripts) relates primarily to the history of Radio Liberty from the 1950s to the 1970s, but extends also into the 1990s. Sosin was director of broadcast planning for RL.
Wiktor Sukiennicki
The Sukiennicki collection includes materials prepared during the Polish émigré historian and political scientist's 1952-1959 tenure as a research analyst for RFE, as well as a 1946 report prepared for the Polish Council of Ministers on the Katyn Forest Massacre and the fate of Poles taken prisoner by the Soviet Union during World War II. [+]
Alexander Vardy
This collection consists of transcripts, memoranda, reports, studies, newsletters, and photographs collected during Vardy's eighteen years as a broadcast scriptwriter for Radio Liberty's Russian-language service. [+]
For information and access contact:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
E-mail: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
Web site: http://www.hoover.org/hila
DUPLICATE BROADCAST ARCHIVES
Czechoslovak Broadcast Archive
The Czechoslovak Documentation Center of the Institute of Contemporary History in Prague holds a duplicate set of the broadcast tapes and manuscripts of RFE's Czechoslovak service (split into separate Czech and Slovak services in 1992) for the period 1952-1995. The collection of selected audio recordings, broadcast scripts on microfilm and paper, and associated editorial documentation is augmented by materials on the Czechoslovak service previously gathered by the Center. For information contact:
Mr. Vilem Precan
Chairman
The Czechoslovak Documentation Center
Vlasská 9
118 40 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Telephone and Fax: +420 2 991 2586
E-mail: precan@usd.cas.cz
Web site: http://www.usd.cas.cz/
Hungarian Broadcast Archive
The National Szechenyi Library in Budapest holds a duplicate set of the broadcast tapes and manuscripts of RFE's Hungarian service for the period 1952-1995. The collection consists of selected audio recordings, broadcast scripts on microfilm and paper, and associated editorial documentation. For information contact:
Dr. Istvan Monok
Director General
National Szechenyi Library
Budavari Palota F epulet
H-1827 Budapest, Hungary
Telephone: +36 1 155 6167
Web site: http://www.oszk.hu/eng/
Polish Broadcast Archive
The Polish State Archives in Warsaw hold a duplicate set of the broadcast tapes and manuscripts of RFE's Polish service for the period 1952-1995. The collection consists of selected audio recordings, broadcast scripts on microfilm and paper, and associated editorial documentation. For information contact:
Mr. Krzysztof Patek, Director
Archive of Audio Visual Records
Polish State Archives
u. Swietojerska 24
00-202 Warsaw
Poland
Telephone: +48 22 831 1736
Email: admpatek@post.pl
Web site: http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/?CIDA=43
RFE/RL RELATED RESOURCES ON THE WEB
RFE/RL
Information on RFE/RL Archives:
http://reports.rferl.org/archives.asp
RFE/RL publications for the last five years are also available on the RFE/RL web site:
http://www.rferl.org
Copies of most research publications are available through RFE/RL's Prague headquarters. For information contact
RFE/RL Library
Vinohradska 1
CZ-10000 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Telephone: +420 2 2112-2144
E-mail: library@rferl.org
Friends & Partners
Friends & Partners maintains an archive of RFE/RL Newsline for the period 1991-1999:
http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/news/rferl/index.html
RELATED COLLECTIONS AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS
OPEN SOCIETY ARCHIVES
RFE Research, RL Research, and RFE/RL Research Institute Memoranda and Archives
The Open Society Archives (OSA) is an international archival, research and educational institution, affiliated with the Central European University in Budapest. OSA houses the archives of the former RFE/RL Research Institute. The collection includes memoranda and reports produced for both RFE/RL internal consumption and external circulation, as well as the famous RFE/RL samizdat archive. OSA also has a significant human rights and war crimes collection, especially from the former Communist region, consisting of textual and audiovisual materials. A description of the OSA's RFE/RL collection can be found at:
http://www.osa.ceu.hu/guide/fonds/communismandcoldwar.shtml
For information and access contact
Pavol Salamon, Supervisory Archivist
Open Society Archives
Central European University
H-1051 Budapest, Nador u. 9
P.O. Box 1082
Hungary
Telephone: +36 1 327-3250
Fax: +36 1 327-3260
E-mail: salamon@ceu.hu
Web Site: http://www.osa.ceu.hu
Visiting Address:
H-1051 Budapest, Oktober 6. u. 12, Hungary
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Lewis Galantiere Papers
Translator of French literature, playwright, and journalist, Galantiere also served as a longtime policy adviser to Radio Free Europe.
Imre Kovacs Papers
Included in the papers of the Hungarian writer and statesman are materials generated during Kovacs's service as a staff member of the National Committee for a Free Europe (RFE's original parent organization) and later association with RFE's Hungarian service.
Charles Malamuth Papers
Malamuth, a well-known Russia expert, writer, and translator, worked for a time as a programming and policy adviser in the Munich offices of both Radio Liberty and Voice of America.
Vladimir Veidle Papers
Art historian and literary critic Veidle was recruited as the first program director of Radio Liberty's Russian service. Included in this collection of manuscripts, notes, correspondence, and photographs are many transcripts of Veidle's RL broadcasts.
For information and access contact:
Columbia University
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Butler Library, 6th Fl. East
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027
E-mail: rarebooks@libraries.cul.columbia.edu
Web site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/index.html
Oral History Research Office
Oral History of the Russian Revolution
In 1965, in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Radio Liberty recorded interviews with a wide array of prominent émigrés who had played some part in the events of 1917.
Howland Sargeant Oral History
Sargeant served as the president of the American Committee for Liberation, later the Radio Liberty Committee, from 1954 to 1975. His reminiscences were recorded in 1970 as part of an Eisenhower administration oral history project.
For information and access contact
Oral History Research Office
Columbia University
801 Butler Library, Box 20
535 W. 114th St., MC 1129
New York, NY 10027
Tel: (212) 854-7083
E-mail: oralhist@libraries.cul.columbia.edu
Web site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
David Abshire Papers
David M. Abshire served as the first chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting, appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1974. He is co-founder, with Admiral Arleigh Burke, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. From 1983 to 1987 he was the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Abshire currently serves on the Board of Trustees of CSIS and the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. His papers, dating from 1962 to 1983, contain materials pertaining to his service with the State Department in the 1970’s, as well as to the history and activities of CSIS.
Robert F. Kelley Papers (click here for bio)
Serving for over twenty years, Robert F. Kelley was instrumental in the formation and evolution of Radio Liberty. His papers, covering the period from 1922 to 1972, contain numerous materials related to Kelley’s role in the organization’s founding and early years. Also of interest are the papers covering Kelley’s years in the State Department, where from 1926 to 1937 he served as chief of the Division of Eastern European Affairs.
Jon Lodeesen Papers
Jon Lodeesen served in numerous positions in both the Munich and New York bureaus of RFE/RL from 1969 until his death in 1993. At the time of his death, he was working on a history of RFE/RL; the research materials for this work in progress are included along with materials gathered over the course of Lodeesen's tenure with the radios.
For information and access contact
Special Collections
Lauinger Library
Georgetown University
37th and N Streets, N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20057
Tel: (202) 687-7444
Fax: (202) 687-7501
E-mail: barringg@georgetown.edu
Web site: http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl222.htm
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RFE/RL-RELATED MATERIAL
BROADCASTING FREEDOM: THE COLD WAR TRIUMPH OF RADIO FREE EUROPE AND RADIO LIBERTY
By Arch Puddington
ISBN#: 0813121582
Publisher: University of Kentucky Press
Publication date: May 2000
SPARKS OF LIBERTY: AN INSIDER'S MEMOIR OF RADIO LIBERTY
By Gene Sosin
ISBN#: 0271018690
Publisher:Pennsylvania University Press
Publication date: April 1999
RADIO FREE EUROPE AND THE PURSUIT OF DEMOCRACY: MY WAR WITHIN THE COLD WAR
By George R. Urban
ISBN#: 0300069219
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: January 1998
WAR OF THE BLACK HEAVENS: THE BATTLES OF WESTERN BROADCASTING IN THE COLD WAR
By Michael Nelson
ISBN#: 0815604793
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: October 1997
RADIO HOLE-IN-THE-HEAD/RADIO LIBERTY
By James Critchlow
ISBN#: 1879383470
Publisher: American University Press
Publication date: January 1995
U.S. BROADCASTING TO THE SOVIET UNION
Ludmilla Alexeyeva
ISBN#: 0938579878
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Publication date: September 1986
AMERICA'S OTHER VOICE: THE STORY OF RADIO FREE EUROPE AND RADIO LIBERTY
By Sig Mickelson
ISBN#: 0030632242
Publisher: Praeger
Publication date: October 1983
U.S. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING AND NATIONAL SECURITY
By James L. Tyson
Publisher: Ramapo Press, National Strategy Information Center
ASIN#: 0915071002
Publication date: 1983
BROADCASTING PIRATES OR ABUSE OF THE MICROPHONE: AN OUTLINE OF EXTERNAL POLITICAL RADIO PROPAGANDA BY THE USA, BRITAIN, AND THE FRG
By Artyom F. Panfilov, (trans. Nicholas Bobrov)
Publisher: Progress Publishers
Publication date: 1981
SUBVERSION BY RADIO: RADIO FREE EUROPE AND RADIO LIBERTY
By Artyom Panfilov and Yuri Karchevskyv
Publisher: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House
Publication date: 1974
VOICES THROUGH THE IRON CURTAIN: THE RADIO FREE EUROPE STORY
By Allan A. Michie
Publisher: Mead
Publication date: 1963
RADIO FREE EUROPE
By Robert T. Holt
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date: 1958
|
