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	HU OSA 300-3
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 3:	German Affairs

Date(s) 1953-1973

Extent and medium 45 Archival boxes, 6 linear meters

Scope and content

The records includes daily press releases, newspaper clippings from German, and periodicals, transcripts of the monitoring of the Czechoslovak Radio and Television broadcasts, Background Reports Situation Reports and RFE Research Reports.

Includes extensive information related to agriculture, armed forces (Warsaw Pact, NATO, ), political parties (large section on the Communist Party, the files on the Central Committee are from1946), opposition, economy, culture, industry and state apparatus..

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 300-3-1 East German Subject Files, 1953-1973

Language/scripts of material English, German

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-8-3 Background Reports, 1956-1989
• HU OSA 300-8-18 Hinter dem eisernen Vorhang, 1955-1965
• HU OSA 300-8-24 News from behind the Iron Curtain, 1952-1956

Archivist's Note

Trudy Peterson, former executive director of the OSA knew from discussions with Bill Robinson, who had worked for the Radios for many years, that in the late 1950s and early 1960s there had been a small group who studied East Germany and people who tracked the “International Communist Movement" all over the world. The relationship between these groups is not clear.

Date(s) of descriptions

Described by Pavol Šalamon, 8 July, 2003
Online version updated 6 January 2012