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...port on the Gulf of Oman commanding the approaches to the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The mysterious new tower that had been spotted near the town turned out to be no Soviet listening post. What had been mistaken for a spy installation was, in fact, a powerful 1,200-kilo-watt radio transmitter set up by the Iranian government to foment Islamic revolution abroad. Broadcasting in a dozen languages, the transmitter has been beaming subversive broadcasts to the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula and parts of Africa...
...that, only the U.S. Government knew. But last week the Government took a big stride toward getting Allied news heard in Asia. Not waiting for the lately authorized shortwave station to be built in California, the Coordinator of Information bought General Electric's newest, finest, 100-kilo-watt transmitter (which has been operating under the call letters WGEO in Schenectady since September) for shipment to San Francisco.* There it will become a powerful partner of G.E.'s present 50-kilowatter, KGEI, in short-wave broadcasting across the Pacific...
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