Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 300-30-13

Title

Information Items

Date(s)

1965 - 1971

Description Level

Series

Extent and medium (processed)

2 Archival boxes, 0.25 linear meters

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

The series contains transcripts and summaries of interviews that RFE staff conducted with emigrants and visitors of Western countries.

The information items that came from the RFE’s ten Western European field bureaus, are based on interviews conducted with immigrants and defectors in Western refugee camps and immigration offices or with western travelers coming back from behind the Iron Curtain, and also RFE correspondence with anonymous sources from the socialist countries.

The structure of one information item is as follows: source, date, evaluation summary, evaluation comment and text. Sent to the Czechoslovak Unit, the reports were carefully checked for accuracy and plausibility. Only those reports which passed the various filtering systems were recommended as subjects for producing radio programs.

Accruals

Not Expected

System of arrangement

Arranged chronologically

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Unknown

Languages

Czech, English, Slovak

Description Control

Archivist's note

Arranged by Erika Molnar; described by Pavol Salamon, May 18, 2000, revised by Pavol Salamon, April 14, 2002.