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by null4bl3 1643 days ago
Radio Free Europe is a CIA funded propaganda outlet. No different than RT.
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Russia Today (RT) has been sanctioned as a propaganda service by international journalism organisations for years.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty does not have this reputation unlike Russia Today.

Who have these international journalism organizations identified as US propaganda services?

If they have not made those distinctions about US funded propaganda outlets, is that because they don't exist? Or because those international journalism organizations can't be trusted to call balls and strikes?

> Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty does not have this reputation unlike Russia Today.

Wholly untrue and easily disproven.

RFE used to be one of the more important propaganda tool of the US against the Soviets. It was directly managed by the CIA until 1973.

If you look at their wikipedia page [1], you'll even see several references to it that used to be in their own "history" page. Strangely enough, all Wayback machine version now point to the current version since last year.

Nevertheless, at this point it's even been the subject of academic works [2].

RFE is now nominally financed by the US Congress, and overseen by a governmental agency called the Broadcasting Board of Governors, who are all directly named by the US president. The organisation it belongs to used to be called the United States Information Agency [3] until the 90's, and were the explicit international propaganda arm of the US. Trump changed the name and internal organistaion to the US Agency for Global Media [5].

It might not be an outright CIA shop anymore, but it is still following the editorial line of the US government at least as late as 2016 [6].

They also "coincidentally" often open subsidiary offices generally in the year before a conflict in the country next to said conflict (Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan and Iraq in 2002). Same for anti-communist revolutions, where RFE was instrumental for example in spreading the Romanian orphan story which led to the fall of Ceaucescu [7].

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...

[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/43134017

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Information_Agen...

[4] https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0620/062048.html

[5] https://www.usagm.gov/

[6] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43521

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans