CZECH VIEWS ON THE RADIO FREE EUROPE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010300030005-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
DATE DISTR. FEB 5 1952
SUBJECT Czech Views on the Radio Free Europe NO. OF PAGES 3
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on 17 November 1951, new Instructions concerning the
official line to be taken by Czechoslovak authorities
toward the broadcasts of Radio Pree Europe from Munich
have been issued by the Czechoslovak Ministry of the
Interior in Prague, These new directives, based on a
plan elaborated by Grisa Spurny, Depu.ty?Minister of
the Interior, reconmuend the following principles to
be used in the future in dealing with the Radio Free
Europe broadcasts:
as It is no longer necessary to hinder?recaetion
or to conceal the contents of Radio Free Europe
broadcasts from the Czechoslovak public; on the
contrary, it will be expedient to give the broad.
casts the greatest possible amount of publicity
in the form of polemics and counterattacks,,
bo It is no longer necessary to present Radio Free
2. The new instructions from the Ministry of the Interior
specifically recommend to all organizations and
agitators of the Czechoslovak Communist Party concerned
with political education of the masses to proceed in
dealing with the effects on the Czechoslovak public
of Radio Free Europe broadcasts as follows:
Europe broadcasts from Munich as the subversive
work of Czech traitors, On the contrary, it will
be expedient to expose them as utterances of
official American policy toward Czechoslovakia,
Full political use is to be made of the tendency
of Radio Free Europe to whitewash representatives
of former regimes in Czechoslovakia,
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Fall social use is to be made of the tendency of Radio
Free Europe to exaggerate the social well-being in
Czechoslovakia during the period 1918'19380
3o For these changes the report of Grisa Spurnya Deputy-Minister
of the Interior,; gave the following motivation:
ao When first begun, the broadcasts of Radio Free Europe
from Munich were of great concern to _the Czechoslovak
bo Radio Free Europe broadcasts when started, gained large
audiences in Czechoslovakia; they are now losing popu-
larity in working class circles because of the lack of
understanding they exhibit for the.social changes which
have been brought about in Czechoslovakia since 1948s
and which have brought important social advantages to
the Czech workers* The fact that these broadcasts .
ignore all improvements leaves Czech workers disappointed
in Radio Free Europeo
The report cites the following items as most embarrassing
for Czechoslovak listeners of Radio Free Europe:
ao Slovak Separatism
The Sudeten German question:
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6o The reception given to Radio Free Europe by listeners in
the Czech working class makes it clear that Peroutka,, a
"highbrow" author of good standing Who,, however,, is un-
popular with the oomman man, will be unable to win the
worker's support
Because of this attitude, Spurny's report recommends that
the campaign against Radio Free Europe be ostentatious
and specifically directed against American interference
in Czechoslovak internal matters, voicing the following
accusations:
The Americana are not Impartial
Americana are not objectively informed about vital
Czech political problems, On the contrary, as the
broadcasts prove, they are ignoring the importance
of the Slovak and Sudeten German problems; therefore
the Americana are unfit to prepare a Central European
settlement acceptable to the bourgeois, Catholic, and
peasant groups,
co Americans are not aware of the progressive changes
which have occurred in the social structure-of
Czechoslovakia since 1948, an the contrary,, as proved
by the broadcasts, they wish to abolish all the social
advantages gained,by the workers-during the Communist
regime; therefore,, the Americans,, enemies of the Czech
working class, and the last reactionary defenders of
capitalism, wish to"reestablish in Europe the anti-
social prewar order,
7o In conclusion,, the report does not insist on including the'
peace propaganda in the campaign against Radio Free Europe,
It is assumed that the sympathetic Czechoslovak listeners
will accept the risk,of war as the only means to their
so-called liberation, and thus would not be influenced by,
any peace propaganda,
Amendments to Grisa Spurny's report have been proposed by
Marie PujmanovacHennerova, Ceatmir Suchy and Gustav Bares,
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