Summary of CIA Clandestine Cold War Broadcasting to Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China
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CIA Supported Radio Broadcasting from West Germany
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Target Country | CIA Project Cryptonym | Sponsoring Organization and Cryptonym
| Began Broadcasting | Terminated Broadcasting |
BG. RO, HU, CZ, PL | TPFEELING, SGCRIND | Radio Free Europe --National Committee for Free Europe TPTONIC, QKIVORY | July 4, 1950 | Continues as RFE/RL in Prague |
Soviet Union | DTPILLAR, TPLINGO, QKACTIVE | Radio Liberation (Liberty) -- American Committee for Liberation, PBAFFIRM
| March 3, 1953 | Continues as RFE/RL in Prague |
Soviet Russia
| AEGIDEON – AESAURUS, QKDROOP | Radio Free Russia, NTS - National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (Narodno Trudovoi Soyuz)
| December 1950 | 1974? |
Soviet Russia | AEVIRGIL, AECROAK AEHANGOVER | Nasha Rossiya, TsOPE – Central Association of Political Emigres in Munich produced scripts and tapes for Spain, Rome, and Taiwan | 1954 | Summer 1963 |
Radio Nacional de España (RNE), Madrid, Spain
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Target Country | CIA Project Cryptonym | Name and Cover Organization
| Began Broadcasting | Terminated Broadcasting |
Estonia | AEBASIN/AEROOT, AEFREEMAN, LCHOMELY
| Voice of Estonian Freedom, Estonian National Committee | October 16, 1955
| October 31, 1963 |
Lithuania | AECHAMP, AEPOLE, AEFREEMAN | VLIK – Supreme Committee for Lithuanian Liberation, Voice of VLIK
| January 1, 1955 | October 31, 1963 |
Latvia | AEMARSH, AEFLAG, AEMINX, AEFREEMAN
| ILC – Institute of Latvian Culture, Voice of Free Latvians
| February 1, 1955 | October 31, 1963 |
Ukraine | AERODYNAMC | UHVR – Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council, Prolog Associates
| March 1956 | October 1959 |
Soviet Russia | AEVIRGIL | TsOPE – Central Association of Political Emigres in Munich produced scripts and tapes
| 1954 | 1963 |
Belarus | AEQUOR, AECAMBISTA
| BNR – Byelorussian National Republic in Exile | January 1959 | Oct. 1961 (?) |
Clandestine Broadcasting from Greece
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Target Country | CIA Project Cryptonym | Name and Cover Organization
| Began Broadcasting | Terminated Broadcasting |
Albania | OBOPUS/BGFIEND, OBTEST, OBLIVIOUS | HTGRUBY, Voice of Free Albania – National Committee for Free Albania (HTNEIGH); NATCOM --National Socialist Radio, | VOFA September 18, 1951
NATCOM in May 1957 | VOFA February 28, 1958
November 20, 1959 |
Bulgaria | QKSTAIR, BGCONVOY
| Radio Goryanin, Voice of Bulgarian Resistance; (METAPHOR) Hristo Botev, (METAPHOR 1), “National Communist”
| April 1, 1951
October 1953 | August 9, 1962
July 30, 1962
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Romania | QKBROIL, SHELLAC
| România Viitoare, Future of Romania, Voice of National Resistance; SHELLAC was directed against Communists
| 1954 | October 1959 |
Soviet Russia | AEVIRGIL | TsOPE, Nasha Rossiya (Our Russia), | 1954 tapes prepared in New York. In Sept. 1957 programs prepared in Greece | 1963 |
Ukraine | AERODYNAMIC | Nova Ukraina (New Ukraine) (RANTNER) | September 25, 1955
| October 1959 |
Soviet Union | AECROAK, AEHANGOVER | Azeri ? Armenian ? TsOPE tapes prepared in USA | 1955 ? | 1960 |
Georgian SSR | AEPARADE
| Radio Kavkaz (Caucasus), Georgian National Democrats
| ? | October 1959 (?) |
Central Asia | ?
| Radio Bajkal | ? | October 1959 (?) |
CIA Supported Broadcasting from Taiwan
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Target Country | CIA Project Cryptonym | Name and Cover Organization
| Began Broadcasting | Terminated Broadcasting |
Soviet Union | TPLINGO | Radio Liberation (Liberty)
| 1955 | 1972 |
Soviet Russia | AEGIDEON / AESAURUS | Radio Free Russia – NTS
| 1957 | 1960 |
Soviet Russia | AEVIRGIL | TsOPE Munich tapes for the Broadcast Corporation of China (BCC) | 1958 | 1963 |
CIA Supported Broadcasting from Italy | ||||
Target Country | CIA Project Cryptonym | Name and Cover Organization
| Began Broadcasting | Terminated Broadcasting |
Soviet Russia | AERVIRGIL | TSOPE in Munich sent scripts for Radio Rome | 1958
| 1963 |
Estonia | AEBASIN/AEROOT, AEFREEMAN | Radio Rome ? | ? | October 31, 1963 |
Latvia
| AEMARSH, AEFLAG, AEMINX, AEFREEMAN | Radio Rome | ? | October 31, 1963 |
Lithuania | AECHAMP, AEPOLE, AEFREEMAN | Lithuanian Section at Radio Vatican and Radio Rome | 1953 | October 31, 1963 |
CIA Supported Broadcasts from the United States to Asia
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Target Country | CIA Project Cryptonym | Name and Cover Organization
| Began Broadcasting | Terminated Broadcasting |
China, Japan, Philippines, India, Southeast Asia | DTPILLAR | Radio Free Asia (original), Committee for a Free Asia | Sept. 4, 1951 | April 30, 1953 |
