U.S. radio in Europe
'N.Z P.A-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, July 22.
The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to end the Central Intelligence Agency’s undercover financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, both based in Munich, West Germany.
Instead, the committee authorised the expenditure of SUS3Sm for open Government support of the two stations during the coming year.
The committee defeated a Nixon Administration proposal to establish a Govern-ment-financed private corporation to supervise the work of Radio Free Europe, which broadcasts to Eastern Europe, and Radio Liberty, which broadcasts to the Soviet Union.
Senator J. William Fulbright told reporters that he had voted against finance for the two stations because he felt that their work duplicated that of the Voice of America, the excuse for their existence, he said, was that they were privately run and could say things for which the Government did not want to take responsibility.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32666, 23 July 1971, Page 13
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