General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:1/84

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Archival photo box #1 / No. 84

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_001-084

Legacy ID

rfe_workflow_084

Date

1965

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

Senior Czechoslovak analyst Hanus Hajek is sitting in front of chest of drawers for card files, and is holding in his hand and reading one of the cards. Several of the drawers are open. He is wearing a suit and a tie.The Research Institute of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty monitored not only its target countries' broadcast operations and their programs but also their printed press. To make the information gathered from these sources accessible for the analysts and editors working at the Radios, they have created keyword systems and were collecting and filing articles related to the various subjects from the 1950s till 1995. Thus RFE/RL created a thematically structured press clipping archives consisting of, inter alia, Subject Files and Biographical Files. The paper based hard copy of the press clipping archives, in hard copy is accessible at Blinken OSA Archives since 1995. Cf. HU OSA 300-1-8/1:83, HU OSA 300-1-8/1:82, HU OSA 300-1-8/1:85, HU OSA 300-1-8/1:86, HU OSA 300-1-8/1:89.
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Radio Free Europe, 1 English Garden, Munich, West Germany, Phone 22-99-21. In order to broadcast responsibly to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, while located outside of East Europe, Radio Free Europe maintains an extensive research and analysis department at its Munich headquarters. Information is gathered through reading of hundreds of communist periodicals, books and official government reports. Hanus Hajek (above) senior Czechoslovak evaluator, examines card files containing biographies of Czechoslovak officials and history and information about Czechoslovak political, economic and cultural institutions. The Czechoslovak department alone receives 200 different publications, 25 of these newspapers. Public Affairs Department.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

card file, Cold War, man, monitoring, newspaper, press clipping, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, research unit