[silence] (OT) BBC Radio - The CIA and the Avant Garde

[Jim Flannery]

Thursday, September 28, 2006, 12:16:58 AM, one spoke:

J> Guy De Bievre wrote:

>> not broadcast in the US (too much freedom I guess)

J> There were no willing commercial sponsors, which has always been
J> America's most effective form of censorship.

VOA was prohibited from broadcasting to the US. Unlike now, it was
illegal for the US government to conduct disinformation campaigns
against its own citizens.

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Jim Flannery
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