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Cold War Radio

The Dangerous History of American Broadcasting in Europe, 1950-1989

By: Richard H. Cummings

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Cold War Radio

The Dangerous History of American Broadcasting in Europe, 1950-1989

By: Richard H. Cummings

During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty broadcast uncensored news and commentary to people living in communist nations. As critical elements of the CIA's early covert activities against communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Munich-based stations drew a large audience despite efforts to jam the broadcasts and ban citizens from listening to them. This history of the stations in the Cold War era reveals the perils their staff faced from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania and other communist states. It recounts in detail the murder of writer Georgi Markov, the 1981 bombing of the stations by "Carlos the Jackal," infiltration by KGB agent Oleg Tumanov and other events. Appendices include security reports, letters between Carlos the Jackal and German terrorist Johannes Weinrich and other documents, many of which have never been published.

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320

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McFarland

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ISBN 10

0786453001

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9780786453009

Cold War Frequencies

CIA Clandestine Radio Broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

By: Richard H. Cummings

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Cold War Frequencies

CIA Clandestine Radio Broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

By: Richard H. Cummings

Published for the first time, the history of the CIA's clandestine short-wave radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the USSR during the early Cold War is covered in-depth. Chapters describe the "gray" broadcasting of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in Munich; clandestine or "black" radio broadcasts from Radio Nacional de Espana in Madrid to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine; transmissions to Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Ukraine and the USSR from a secret site near Athens; and broadcasts to Byelorussia and Slovakia. Infiltrated behind the Iron Curtain through dangerous air drops and boat landings, CIA and other intelligence service agents faced counterespionage, kidnapping, assassination, arrest and imprisonment. Excerpts from broadcasts taken from monitoring reports of Eastern Europe intelligence agencies are included.

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270

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McFarland

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ISBN 10

1476678642

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9781476678641

Radio Free Europe's "Crusade for Freedom"

Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950-1960

By: Richard H. Cummings

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Radio Free Europe's "Crusade for Freedom"

Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950-1960

By: Richard H. Cummings

From 1950 to 1960, millions of Americans participated in Radio Free Europe's "Crusade for Freedom." They signed "Freedom Scrolls" and "Freedom Grams," attended Crusader meetings, marched in parades, launched leaflet-carrying balloons, and donated Truth Dollars in support of the American effort to broadcast news and other programming to the peoples of communist-governed European countries. The Crusade for Freedom proved to be a powerful tool of the state-private network's anti-communist agenda. This book takes an in-depth look at the Crusade for Freedom, revealing how its unmatched pageantry of patriotism led to the creation of a dynamic movement involving not only the government but also private industry, mass media, academia, religious leaders, and average Americans.

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267

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McFarland

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0786462078

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9780786462070

Jim Crow North

The Struggle for Equal Rights in Antebellum New England

By: Richard Archer

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Jim Crow North

The Struggle for Equal Rights in Antebellum New England

By: Richard Archer

More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Shadrach Howard, David Ruggles, Frederick Douglass, and others had rejected demands that they relinquish their seats on various New England railroads. They were protesting segregation on Jim Crow cars, a term that originated in New England in 1839. Theirs was part of a larger movement for equal rights in antebellum New England. Using sit-ins, boycotts, petition drives, and other initiatives, African-American New Englanders and their white allies attempted to desegregate schools, transportation, neighborhoods, churches, and cultural venues. Above all they sought to be respected and treated as equals in a reputedly democratic society. Jim Crow North is the tale of that struggle and the racism that prompted it. Despite widespread racism, black New Englanders were remarkably successful. By the advent of the Civil War African American men could vote and hold office in every New England state but Connecticut. Schools, except in the largest cities of Connecticut and Rhode Island, were integrated. Railroads, stagecoaches, hotels, and cultural venues (with occasional aberrations) were free from discrimination. People of African descent and of European descent could marry one another and live peaceably, even in Maine and Rhode Island where such marriages were legally prohibited. There was an emerging, if still small, black middle class who benefitted most. But there were limits to progress. A majority of African-Americans in New England were mired in poverty preventing full equality both then and now.

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313

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Oxford University Press

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0190676663

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9780190676667

Dreams in the Mirror

A Biography of E.E. Cummings

By: Richard S. Kennedy

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Dreams in the Mirror

A Biography of E.E. Cummings

By: Richard S. Kennedy

Reissued with a new preface for the centennial.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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087140155X

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9780871401557

Monet to Moore

The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation

By: Richard R. Brettell,Chicago. Sara Lee Collection,Natalie Henderson Lee,Singapore Art Museum,Singapore Museum of Art,Sara Lee Corporation,National Gallery of Australia (Canberra),North Carolina Museum of Art,Art Institute of Chicago,Portland Art Museum (Portland, Or.)

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The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation

This Millennium Gift is the largest single gift to the arts in American history and the first to include institutions outside the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

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241

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Yale University Press

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0300081340

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9780300081343

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Cold War Radio

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Dreams in the Mirror

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