General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:1/8

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. 8

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_001-008

Legacy ID

rfe_workflow_008

Date

1980

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

The control panels at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty monitoring station at Schleissheim outside of Munich, where radio and television transmissions from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were recorded. In the picture there is a huge wall of equipment operated by a man in casual clothes standing in the background of the tiled floor hall. There is also a clock on the wall and a desk with a swivel chair in the middle of the room.

ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Munich - The control panels at the RFE/RL monitoring station at Schleissheim outside of Munich, where antennas capture radio and television transmissions from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, feeding the sound to the headquarters building in Munich. Trained monitors keep the Radio's news, research and programming staffs up-to-the-minute on what the opposition is - and is not - saying. A separate section screens this huge input for stories of possible cross-reporting value. Did Radio Bucharest mention Transylvania? Then the Hungarian Service would be interested.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Schleissheim

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Schleissheim

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

clock, Cold War, machine, man, monitoring, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, tape recorder