| Introduction
Prologue 1 The Russians Started It 2 The Lonely Listener in the Bush 3 An Instrument of War I The Start of the Cold War (1945-1947) 1 One-two to the Jaw 2 BBC – Programs in the National Interest 3 VOA – The Illegitimate Child at a Family Reunion II The Beginning of the Age of Jamming (1947-1950) 1 Jamming – The Deprived Volga Boatman 2 BBC – Mad Agitators and Disruptionists 3 VOA – Keeping the Soviet Bear Busy 4 CIA – And The Truth Shall Make You Free III Starting RFE and RL (1950-1953) 1 RFE – Harder than Popularizing Cornflakes 2 RL – Implacable Struggle 3 VOA – Not if it’s by Rimsky-Korsakov 4 BBC – The Voice of Britain Must Whisper 5 The Audience – Is Anybody Out There? IV Uprisings (1953-1956) 1 East Germany and Czechoslovakia: Better Pay – Less Talk 2 Poland and Hungary – Crisis for RFE 3 VOA – Why the VOA Should be Abolished 4 BBC – Hobbled but by No Means Crippled V The Beginnings of Détente (1956-1963) 1 USSR – Shooting Themselves in Both Feet 2 RFE & RL – Doubts and Disputes 3 VOA – Hard Sell or Soft Sell? 4 BBC – Be Beastly to the Communists – or Not? VI Other Major Broadcasters 1 Vatican Radio 2 Radio France Internationale 3 Radio Canada International 4 Radio in the American Sector, RIAS Berlin 5 Deutsche Welle VII Clearer Airwaves (1963-1968) 1 USSR – No longer Saturday’s News on Monday 2 RFE & RL – O What a Tangled Web the CIA Wove 3 VOA – The New Sound 4 BBC – To Fill the Bucket of Misinformation 5 The Audience – An Occasional Worthwhile Thing on BBC VIII Czechoslovak Invasion and After (1968-1979) 1 Helsinki – Hoist with Their Own Petard 2 RFE & RL – To the Graveyard of Cold War Relics 3 VOA – The Voice is Not Muted 4 BBC – Russia is Not for Dancing 5 Markov – Murdered Because He Told the Truth IX Solidarity (1979-89) 1 Poland – If You Would Close Your Radio Free Europe … … 2 USSR – The End of the Lie 3 RFE/RL – Kitchen of the Stinking Fish of False Reports 4 VOA – Provocative Insinuations 5 BBC – Mongooses Trying to Destroy Everything Snakelike. X Revolutions (1989) 1 Poland – Influence of the Bagel-shaped Round Table 2 Cross-border Television – The Smuggled Camera 3 Manipulation of the Radios – Mysterious Deaths 4 Impact of the Radios – Froth on the Milk Rises 5 The Audience – Education in Another Spirit Epilogue – Gorbachev Listens to the Voices Chronology Bibliography Books Articles, Pamphlets, Scripts, Speeches and Papers Public Reports Archives |
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