War of the Black Heavens – Contents

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

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