VOICE OF AMERICA BROADCASTS IN KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500770008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Vr;ice of America broadcasts were proscribed in Pyongyang under the Communist
regime, but with an ordinary radio receiving set (as, for examples nine-tube
mode.1 s :cold by Churin and Cor::~~anar in i rongyang) it was p. ssible to receive
the broadcasts ci..arly, fleception of the daily news summary at 1200 hours
as so clear that it was sometimes necessary to turn down the volume in order
to avoid betraying what pros,:'arm was being, heard. The noon broadcast was rarely
sjaimied because almost all. personnel were, at ;work at that time and had no access
to home radios
The 1i330 news summary was clearly audible unless,, as occasionally happened, it
was jaruedo The 2300 broadcasts were frequently and intensely jamred.,, but the
general sense of the announcements