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A dossier on Western international broadcasting into the socialist bloc: Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, the Voice of America, the BBC External Services, Deutsche Welle and a supporting cast of smaller stations, all treated as a single apparatus of psychological warfare.
The subtitle is the genre-evidence, facts, documents-and much of the time it is a good dossier. The budgets, the transmitter networks, the language services, the staffing and the congressional appropriations are laid out with citations, and on the institutional history of the American stations and their funding it is detailed and largely checkable.
It is also a book about jamming that never uses the word about itself.
The date is the date of the text, and it argues from the sharpest year of the second Cold War knowing it. Reagan's June 1982 address to the British Parliament is the hinge of the whole argument; the destruction of the Korean airliner in September 1983 gets a full chapter; and the presidential directive of early 1983 on exerting steady influence on internal Soviet political life is quoted and named. The budget figures run through fiscal 1985 and the newest event cited is a congressional appropriation of that August.
Closed in mid-1985-six months after Gorbachev became General Secretary, with no hint of glasnost and none that the jamming war had less than three years to run. In outlook it belongs to the winter that produced it rather than the year of its printing.
New critical introduction by Dmitry Chasovennikov.
The subtitle is the genre-evidence, facts, documents-and much of the time it is a good dossier. The budgets, the transmitter networks, the language services, the staffing and the congressional appropriations are laid out with citations, and on the institutional history of the American stations and their funding it is detailed and largely checkable.
It is also a book about jamming that never uses the word about itself.
The date is the date of the text, and it argues from the sharpest year of the second Cold War knowing it. Reagan's June 1982 address to the British Parliament is the hinge of the whole argument; the destruction of the Korean airliner in September 1983 gets a full chapter; and the presidential directive of early 1983 on exerting steady influence on internal Soviet political life is quoted and named. The budget figures run through fiscal 1985 and the newest event cited is a congressional appropriation of that August.
Closed in mid-1985-six months after Gorbachev became General Secretary, with no hint of glasnost and none that the jamming war had less than three years to run. In outlook it belongs to the winter that produced it rather than the year of its printing.
New critical introduction by Dmitry Chasovennikov.