European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                This modern in the English gardens in Munich houses the Headquarters of radio free founded in 1930 by the members of the National committee for a free broadcasts continued from lit the re building left was built with funds from the contributed by americans in the crusade for re has a workforce of a former soviet sergeant lower left shown being sworn into the told of his new Freedom in the West in a recent Broad cast Over the voice of Amer Ica radio station in two hungarians Bottom left present a program of native songs on a radio free Europe broadcast to their a member of the Voa russian unit be Low gives news reports of the free world in a broadcast from the Munich tons in that it is the official voice of the government of the radio free broadcasting Arm the National committee for a free eur was founded july at Lam near and beamed programs tit hours a Day to czechoslovak Romania and on May a medium wave trans Mitter was set up at in october a full scale 11houraday program began to be beamed shortwave to this followed in May of this year by 12houraday shortwave programs to the rest of the Eastern our programs can be classified under three an re official on what is going on la the on what is going on in the countries of the designed to give the listen ers a spiritual them know that people in the West have not forgotten them and Are trying to help re Hasa staff of Over persons working for they Are on the air 544 hours a some programs to Dodge on a station spokesman said that reception was quite bad in Western Czechoslovakia around Good in fairly Good in Hungary and Good in we believe we have the Best information on what is going on in Eastern coun tries any unit broadcasting in the he we have correspondents in All cities of interviewing refugees and sources and funnelling this information in to it is evaluated at re Headquarters in Munich from where 90 per cent of the programs the rest come from new York the third station is still in the organizational members of groups within the worldwide russian emigration for the past two years have been seeking to establish a Center for United action and have held a series of meetings for this purpose in Western technical broadcasting facilities for such a together with technical advisory have been offered the group by the american committee for the libera Tion of the Peoples of of new a private nonprofit organization which already provides Gran Sinaid to various emigre publications and institutions including the Munich Institute for the study of history and culture of the trustees of the committee Are John William maj Gen John Deane Charles Wil Liam Allen Isaac Don Eugene rear adm Mentz Nicholas Reginald William White and Philip chairman of the committee is vice adm Leslie Stevens formerly naval attache to Otis former official of is Deputy chairman and european when it goes on the air the Kremlin will have to shift some of its present worry about its bloc nations to concern Over its own citizens in soviet Russia who May develop an appetite for in the stars and stripes