General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:1/87

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. 87

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_001-087

Legacy ID

rfe_workflow_087

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

Close up of shelves holding documents of the United States government agency called the Foreign Broadcast Information Service which was run by the US Central Intelligence Agency from 1941-2004. FBIS monitored, translated, and republished selected news and commentary from foreign political speeches, radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, and periodicals. These translations, or transcriptions in the case of English language materials, make up the Daily Reports. Since FBIS primary users - US government officials - determined which stories were included, the material is wide-reaching, with an emphasis on political, socioeconomic, scientific, technical, and environmental information. The translations were published as quickly as possible - usually within a few days of original publication - in a series of daily reports. These documents, along with several other sets, were purchased by the Research Institute of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and now are accessible at Blinken OSA.

ORIGINAL CAPTION:
n.a.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

Central Intelligence Agency, Cold War, paper, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty