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Title: Free Europe Press issuances
Dates: 1951-1956
Collection Number: 2010C11
Creator: Free Europe Press.
Collection Size:
2 manuscript boxes
(0.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: American propaganda leaflets and bulletins, distributed by balloon to Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Includes some English-language
working material versions.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Czech,
Slovak,
Hungarian and
Polish.
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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[Identification of item], Free Europe Press issuances, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2010.
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 at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
In the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, numerous psychological warfare leaflets were prepared by the Free Europe Press
(FEP) of the Free Europe Committee. The group worked in cooperation with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, with the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funding much of the operations.
FEP leaflets were a major part of the post-World War II psychological warfare battle between East and West. The operation
sent 590,415 balloons that carried 301,636,883 leaflets, posters, books, and other printed matter from West Germany over the
Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland from August 1951 to November 1956.
Launched by Radio Free Europe and Free Europe Press, these documents urged peasants to refuse to cooperate with collective
farms. They exhorted Slovaks and Czechs to boycott national elections. They included embarrassing secret memos suppressed
by Communist governments.
Source: Free Europe Press Cold War Leaflets, Accessed 2012 http://www.psywarrior.com/RadioFreeEurope.html
Scope and Content of Collection
American propaganda leaflets and bulletins, distributed by balloon to Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Includes some English-language
working material versions.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Propaganda, American--Europe, Eastern.