[A-List] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

["Michael Keaney" <michael.keaney@xxxxxx>]

Rick forwards:

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http://www.rferl.org/newsline/6-swa.asp

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
May 24, 2004

FORMER DETAINEES FROM NORTHERN IRAQ SAY ABUSES WERE
WORSE THAN IN BAGHDAD

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RFE/RL was set up in the aftermath of the second world war by the CIA to
broadcast propaganda to the Soviet bloc. Does anyone here know anything
about its current rationale/funding/set-up, and what changes have occurred
since 1991, and how?

Michael

>From the RFE/RL homepage:

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications
service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central
Asia, and the Middle East, funded by the United States Congress. In the
broadcast region, RFE/RL radio programs reach 35 million listeners who rely
on RFE/RL's daily news, analysis, and current affairs programming to provide
a coherent, objective account of happenings in their region and the around
world. Concentrating on events within this complex region, RFE/RL provides
balanced, reliable information to bolster democratic development and market
economies in countries where peaceful evolution to civil societies is of
vital national interest to the U.S.

See http://www.rferl.org/about/organization/radiostation.asp