ANTI-RED TO SET UP NEW FREEDOM RADIO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900080081-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: March 5, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RFE ANNOUNCER delivers hourly newscast to "Iron CUTtaie
countries. Some..observers,:however, feel RFE broadcasts are
totally ,inadequate.
CAPITAL REPORT
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, WASHINGTON, March 4.-4,Dr. WOier Recher, one of the most l
? distinguished members of the l'El'AVariart?lati'dta'g . in Germany, is"!
visiting the United States. currently on an, interesting and signifi- 1
cant mission. . . . , . . . ? ,
He is attempting to organize-and I am sure he will be sue-'4
.cessful?an aggressive, hard-hitting, really anti-Communist counter- ;
? 'part to Radio Free Europe, as a.joint Iiir n-eil
dlieart-AmericadeaVerr
7----1-Ig"iSloOkfrefe'feriable alid?outStandiiig-Americans -to join ?
;his list 91 European anti-communist sponsors. Refreshingly,. he :ex-
pects to raise most of the money for his project in Germany.' ,
! It is strictly a: non-governmental operation, with no strings
'? tieci-to any Western government,"and no connection with the exiled,'
? politicians from the Iron Curtain countries, with whom Radio Free-
1: By FULTON LEWIS, J
,Europe has unhappily aligned itself.
Dr. Becher doesn't like Communists' or communism in any
:form. He doesn't like Titoists; he doesn't like Gomulkaists; he
doesn't like Kadarists. Dr. Becher is in favor of freedom and private
'r enterprise and capitalism and he doesn't like'sOcialism or, govern-
ment ownership.
He says that at least 80 percent of the people behind the ,'Iron
, ;Curtain feet the same.way and that the:self-serving political propa-
;gouda,- now being fed them, is not the sort of wine, for which their'
isouls i?hrist, .but an unpalatable substitute of .dreggy vinegar.
HE THINKS it is important because, he points Out, many -of-N
;them have not lived under a free system since before World War i
?II. The younger generations have never lived under it at all.
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t toned in these-co`lum-n-S, Who-has fridge an-inten-S1V6:arld .someWhar
tilsillusioning, study of the:actual byoadcasts of Radio Free Europe ?
over the-last six years. ?
? It was this study that caused the two of them to decide that !
such a venture as they propose is needed. As an intelligence opera- 1
, Many pontifical voices speak similar-words,: but Dr. 'Beeher,
iwants to do something about it. The organizatinu he proposes wouid
!begin by setting up an intelligenee, system of. carefully screened 1
!individuals, experienced in the true nature of the' international
qCommunist Conspiracy, including. particularly 'the techniques of
Communist state security systems. -
ICwoUld have no interest in partisan politicS anYwhere, and !
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tion, they say, RFE and the Voice are trl
-t-otatirinatlequat e,-"; -
;would supply intelligence information to all who request it,171117-
'rri'atelk;7 is' d- 'ra di to ' ? tang/1'1i t ters
:similar to those of Radio Free Europe and Voice; of America, to
'send real, anti-communist information and propaganda ,to the Iron :
Curtain peoples. .';
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DR. Bl.!;CHER'S associate. in all this is Mr George Bradal a:
;robust-eze'cirzentle*44i7in his mid clite' ha`Ve-z-akeittiktifen-
rie-riedris-,-Plvaying cops and robbers and foreign intrigue
through European employees, are on, dangerous ground. Europeans,
using their, own people, understand whom they :are dealing with ;
and are less in jeorrciy of 'being deceived. .?
The operation, de from its propaganda value to the satellite
people; :could be an immensely valuable fotintainhead Of reliable4
1n4lahted, intelligence to us. ? ? ,? .
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Declassified and Approved For Release @50-Yr 2013/10/28: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900080081-9