Summary of CIA Clandestine Cold War Radio Broadcasting ©

  

 

Summary of CIA Clandestine Cold War Broadcasting to Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China
CIA Supported Radio Broadcasting from West Germany
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
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
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
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
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
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

 

Parachuting CIA Agents into Cold War Byelorussia (Belarus), Part 2, Creating Legends

On the night of August 26/27, 1952, four agents were dispatched into Byelorussia: Kalnitsky M.S., born in 1922, native of the Zhitkovichi district, Gomel region. (CAMPOSANTO 4), Ostrikov T.A., born in 1923, native of the Borshchevka, Terekhovsky district, Gomel region; (CAMPOSANTO 6), Kostyuk G.A., born in 1922, native of the Zhdanovichi, Novogrudok district, Grodno region; (CAMPOSANTO 8), and Artyushevsky M.P., born in 1925, native of the village. Drochevo, Osipovichi district, Mogilev region; (CAMPOSANTO 9). Before the dispatch, they were given false papers and documents, including "legends" of their lives in the BSSR. Here are excerpts of their "legends":

CAMPOSANTO 4

BARAN, Mikhail Semenovich was born on 27 November 1924 in the village of Beloye, Mozyr raion, Polessiya oblast l, BSSR. His father, Semen Iosifovich B., a poor peasant (bednyak) was born in 1900, likewise in Beloye. His mother, Maria Ivanovna B. (nee ZAREISKAYA) was born in Beloye in 1902. BARAN's parents were married in 1923. He started school in Beloye in 1930 and had finished four classes there by 1934. His father was ill with malaria (a common disease in Polessiya) and was not able to work at full strength. Little BARAN, therefore, had to work to help his mother. He could not continue his schooling because the nearest 7-year school was in Mozyr, some 12 km away, and he had to work near home. 

CAMPOSANTO 6  

BOBROVNICHI, Mikhail Akimovich was born on 10 November 1924 in Gomelt, BSSR. His father, Akin Timofeyevich R., was born in 1886 in the village of Popovka, Gomel' °blast'. In 1913, he married Efrosiniya Sidorovna BUGRIMOVA. Their first child, Yakov, was born in 1914. BOBROVNICHI's father served in both the World War and the Civil War. After his return, he moved to Gomel', and it was there that BOBROVNICHI was born. The father worked in the Gomel, Locomotive and Railway car repair Shop. BOBROVNICHI te family lived in a one-storey house with several other families at ul. Karpovicha 58. (Note: This house was completely destroyed during the recent war.) A third brother, Ilya was born in 1927. BOBROVNICHI started school in 1932. At this time, his elder brother was already working, and the younger brother was still being taken care of at home. He was living with his paternal grandparents in Popovka. He completed six years of school there and then moved back to Gomel', where he finished his last year in the secondary school im. Vorovskogo. This was in 1939 

CAMPOSANTO 8 

KAMINSKI, Viktor Petrovich was born on 19 June 1923 in Vilno.His father, a carpenter by trade, was born in 1890. His mother, Anastasiya Iosifovna K. (nee Sycm) was born in Oshmiana in 1901. When she met KAMINSKII's father, she was working as a serving girl in Vilno. They were married in 1922. KAMINSKII lived in Vilno with his family until 1925. In that year, his mother died in childbirth. He wasthen sent off to Novogrudok to be brought up by his maternal aunt, Dorota kISARUK, She and her husband, Janke, had no children of their own. Xhey lived at ValevakaYa 29 (Polish: Walewska). (Note: This house was totally destroyed during the recent war.) Uncle Janka was an izvozchik who owned his own cart and horse. 

CAMPOSANTO 9 

DUBROVSKII, Mikhail Vasil' evich was born on 22 October 1924 in OsipovIchi, Mogilev °blast', BSSR. His father, Vasilii Mikhailovich D., was born in 1903 in the village of Doroganovica, not far from Osipovichi. His mother, Maria Petrovna D. (nee DUBOVETS) was born in 1906 in the same Tillage. The father was a peasant. When DUBROVSKII Is grandfather died in 1922, the small ancestral holding passed to the eldest son, Konstantin. The other sons then left to seek their fortunes elsewhere: Dmitri went to Leningrad, and DUBROVSKII's father moved to Osipovichi, where he worked at a succession of odd jobs.