Overview of the Klement Simoncic papers
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Overview of the Klement Simoncic papers
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Title: Klement Simoncic papers
Dates: 1951-1988
Collection Number: 2011C12
Creator: Simoncic, Klement.
Collection Size:
Number of Containers: 6 manuscript boxes
(2.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, radio broadcast scripts, reports, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to Radio Free Europe broadcasts
to Czechoslovakia, and to activities of the Society of International Broadcasters in representing the interests of current
and retired RFE/RL employees.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
In English and
Czech
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Klement Simoncic papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2011.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Simoncic served on the Czech desk of Radio Free Europe from its beginning; among his earliest papers are press reviews to
be broadcast dated June 1951. Later papers (1970s-80s) deal with labor relations at RFE/RL and with the creation of the Society
of International Broadcasters, a membership organization established in 1977 and devoted to promoting the interests of Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) employees as well as the interests of U.S. international broadcasting by putting pressure
on the U.S. government to continue and expand its support of international broadcasting. The organization was headed by Major
General C. Rodney Smith, a former director of RFE/RL.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, radio broadcast scripts, reports, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to Radio Free Europe broadcasts
to Czechoslovakia, and to activities of the Society of International Broadcasters in representing the interests of current
and retired RFE/RL employees. The collection is especially significant in that it supplements the corporate records of RFE/RL,
Inc., and adds to our knowledge of how it operated. Until now, the RFE/RL corporate records, which are also housed at the
Hoover Institution, though extensive, are incomplete; the early period of the Radios' existence has been particularly poorly
represented.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Radio broadcasting--Czechoslovakia.
Radio Free Europe.
Society of International Broadcasters.