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...fight back, the Reagan Administration has upped the budget for USIA by 85%, to $795 million in 1985, and launched a six-year $1.3 billion modernization program for the VOA, four of whose transmitters were so old that they had been used by the Nazis in World War II. USIA Director Wick has made combatting Soviet propaganda a personal crusade. On occasion, he has gone overboard. Shortly after taking over the information agency in 1981, he produced a worldwide television extravaganza called Let Poland Be Poland, which featured Frank Sinatra crooning Ever Homeward in pidgin Polish. The show drew howls...
...Soviet delegation returning from a visit to the U.S. might be quoted by Radio Moscow as saying that the Americans they met share with them an aim of world peace. The broadcasts in English are now particularly subtle, using announcers who try to sound indistinguishable from those on the VOA or England's BBC World service. This new sophistication, however, does not exclude an unfounded allegation here and there. Soviet media actively spread the word, for example, that the U.S. was responsible for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro. In addition, events often have...
Other correspondents have appeared on VOA programs. Strout's defenders point out that the equipment and expenses of the press galleries are paid for by Congress, a situation that would seem to make the new rule an exercise in hairsplitting. Without his press card, Strout will be barred from the Capitol when the President is speaking and could in theory be prevented by Capitol guards from looking in on congressional committee hearings. But Strout does not think that will happen. After 51 years, he says, "I'm well known up there...
...Voice of America was an outgrowth of the international broadcasting systems built during World War II. Transferred after the war to the new United States Information Agency, the VOA was used to help fight Cold War ideological battles. Since Russian transmitters jammed the VOA broadcasts, the VOA transmitted on the 'enemy' country's own domestic bands, and in Russian. The VOA programming was increasingly inflammatory, causing the Soviet Union to cite a 1936 Geneva resolution against broadcasts which "incite the population of any territory to acts incompatible with internal order." In addition, the USIA transgressed against the Copenhagen Convention...
...VOA, Radio Free Europe and radio Liberty are not the only flagrant U.S. broadcasting propagandist networks. They are only the most successful ones. Radio Free Asia failed because there were not enough anti-Maoists, and no one in Southeast Asia could conceive that a network of that title could possibly support the French against the Viet Minh. Radio Swan aided in the launching of such Latin American escapades as the Bay of Pigs invasion...