DIRECTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION ORGANIZATION (OIRT)

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• Publication Date: May 15, 1961
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DIRECTORY OF THE
INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND
TELEVISION ORGANIZATION (OIRT)
15 May 1961
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TNTERNATIQNAL RADIO AND TELEVISION ORGANI2ATIO~T (GIRT)
15 May 1961
(This directory is based on information
received by 31 April 1961)
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DIRECTORY OF THE
INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION ORGANIZATION (OIR.T)
15 May 1961
CONTENTS
I. Headquarters Personnel
II. National Affiliate s
III. Biographies
ME I I
Sergey Vasil'yevich Kaftanov
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International Radio and Television Organization
(CJrganisation Internationale de Radiodiffusion et Television, GIRT)
I. Headquarters
Address Liebknechtova 15a Prague XVI, Czechoslovakia,
Officer s
President Petro Kito (Albania
.Vice Presidents YU Yong Pyo (North Korea
Laszlo Cacs (Hungary.
Secretary General Jaromir Hrebik (C zechoslovak~a~.
Publications Information Bulletin, published by the Editorial
~,.~..-.
Bo~`rd of GIRT
Radio and Television,, editor, A.. Suchy
I1. ' National Affiliate s
-(Note; Representation appears to be by governments through their
designated officials rather than by organized national affiliates, p
Albanian Broadcasting Service
Director; Petro Kito
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Broadcasting Service
Department of Radio Information of the Ministry of Culture
Director: Mishio Nikolov
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Byelorussia
Byelorussian Broadcasting Organization
Chairman: V. Perkovsky
China (Communist
Radio and Television Committee of the Chinese People's Republic
Chairman: MEI I
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia Radio::and Television Committee
Chairman; F. Necasek
Estonia 5SR
Estonian Radio
Director: L. Kaik
Finnish Broadcasting Company
Director General: Einar 5undstrom
Germany (East)
German Democratic Broadcasting Service
Deputy Chairman; Wolfgang Kleinert
Hun ary
Hungarian Radio Committee
Chairman: Laszlo Cacs
-Iraq
Iraqi Radio and Television Organization
Director: Dr. D. Ayub
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Korea (North
Central Radio Committee of the Korean People's Democratic Republic
Vice Chairman; Yt]" Yong Pyo
Latvian. SSR
Latvian Radio
Chairman; J, Lemanis
Lithuanian Broadcasting Service
Director; I, Januitis
Moldavian Radio
Dir~;ctor: V, Ylyanov
Mon olia
State Radio Committee of the Mongolian People ? s Republic
Chairman;. L, Puribe
Polish Broadcasting Service
Chairman;. Wlodzimierz Sokorski
Rumania
Rumanian Broadcasting Service
Head; N, Skatchko
USSR
State Radio and Television Committee
Chairman: S. Kaftanov
Vi~;tnam (North
Broadcasting Organization o-f--th~e 1emocratic Republic of Vietnam,
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III. Biographie s
MEI I (China) 25X1A2g
MEI I was born in 1915 at Swatow in Kwangtung province. His status
as a publicist is roughly equal to that of TENG To and CHIN Chung-hua.
Like these men MEI I first established his reputation as a newspaperman.
As director of the Broadcasting Affairs Bureau of Peiping's State
Council and a vice president of the All Ghina Journalists Association, MEI I
ranks high among those leaders charged with the conduct of Chinese Com-
munist propaganda policy. In addition he has served one term (1953) as
president of the International Radio and Television Organization,
MEI I joined the Communist Party of China sometime before 193? when
he was engaged in newspaper work in Shanghai. After the Sino-Japanese
war broke out he took part in activities of the League of Leftist Writers in
Shanghai and Hong Kong. Before 1949 MEI I served as a member of the
administrative board and deputy chief editor of the New China News Agency.
In 1952 MEI I became director of the $ureau of Broadcasting Enterprises.
When the Peiping regime was reorganized in 1954, he was appointed to his
present position as director of the Broadcasting Affairs Bureau.
In 1954 MEI I became a member of the board of directors of the Chinese
People's association for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries as well
as a deputy in the First National People's Congress. In 1956 he was chosen
as a member of the Central Work Committee for the Popularization of Standard
and Spoken Chinese. From 1949 to 1952 MEI I served as an alternate member
of the First National Committee of the All China Federation of Democratic
Youth, and since 1949 he has been a member of the Chinese People?s Political
Consultative Conference.
MEI's travel abroad has included a trip to Budapest in 1952 and a trip
to Prague in 1953 to attend meetings of the International Radio and Television
O r ganizatian.
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Sergey ~Tasil?yevich Kaftanov
S. V? Kaftanov was born in 1907 presumably in the Donets Basin.
He is said to have completed a factory training course and to be a graduate
of t:he Chernical Technological Institute in Moscowe He is also said to have
studied-party propaganda and pedagogical work,
Kaftanov is the chairman of the State Radio and Television Committee
attached to the Central Council of Ministers of the USSR. He began his
political career when he was named in 1937 as chairman of the Committee
on ~~ffairs of Higher Educat~.on attached to the Council of People?s Gorn-
missars. At the 18th All Union Party Congress held in March 1939 Kaftanov wa
was elected to candidate membership on the party?s Gentral Committee.
In addition to his regular duties Kaftanov served as a member and
sometimes as deputy chairman of the Committee on Stalin Prizes in the
field of science and invention .from 19421949. Although not a merrt~ber
of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he served in 1944 as a member. of the
academy?s Commission on Medical Education.
Kaftanov was appointed Minister of Higher Education in 1946. A,s teach
he was chairman of the Presidium of the Ministry?a Council on Scientific
Methods. He was a member of the All Union Society for the dissemination
of Political. and Scientific knowledge in May 1947,,
Kaftanov failed to appear among the other members of the Stalin Prize
Committee n_~i950 nor did he register as a candidate for reelection to the
Supreme Soviet in that year. Tn February 1951 he was transferred to other
work and was not subsequently identified until J~jp.e 1953p when he appeared as the
the first deputy minister in the Ministry of Culture.
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