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	HU OSA 300-50-16
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 50:	Polish Unit
Series 16:	Monitoring of the Polish Radio

Date(s) 1952-1994

Extent and medium 525 Archival boxes, 66 linear meters

Scope and content

This series contains transcripts of broadcasts by the two main two Polish radio stations monitored by the Monitoring Section of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on a daily basis.

The series includes transcripts of broadcasts on important events, commentaries transmitted by the Polish Radio, and occasionally by Radio Tirana, Radio Moskva, Radio Gdansk, Radio Szczecin, Radio Belgrad and Radio Polonia. In 1968 the Monitoring section monitored the broadcasts of Legálny Československý Vysielač. Beginning with May 1, 1991, the programs of RFE in Poland were monitored as well.

Most of the topics are related to the domestic and foreign news, as well as political commentaries and summaries of cultural and social events including the speeches made by the country's leaders on different occasions..

Copies of the monitoring transcripts are also crosslisted into the subject files.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged chronologically

Language/scripts of material Polish

Finding aids

• 525 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-50-17 Monitoring of the Polish TV, 1982
• HU OSA 300-50-21 Transcripts of the RFE program ''Rakowiecka 2''

Date(s) of descriptions

Arranged by Lajos Ludman, Miklós Bányász and Barta Botond; described by Mikós Tamási, September 30, 2002
Online version updated 6 January 2012