General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:1/4

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: RFE/RL Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Oversized box (40 cm) #1 / No. 4

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_001-004

Legacy ID

rfe_workflow_004

Date

1970

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

Man, standing with his back to the viewer, operates a transmission recorder to archive programs. The equipment is old, possibly late 1930s. ORIGINAL CAPTION: At each of RFE's three transmitter sites Holzkirchen (near Munich), Gloria (near Lisbon) and Biblis (near Mannheim) - these special tape recording machines are in constant operation. Part of RFE's licensing agreements with the German Federal Republic and with the Portuguese Government, these machines record every sound transmitted by Radio Free Europe. Official time signals from the two host governments are fed continuously into the tapes, thus making it impossible to alter them in any way. Shortly after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 RFE sent 5 kilometers of these tapes to Bonn and to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, where their contents were translated from Hungarian into German and French respectively. Following this, Chancellor Adenauer stated publicly that "the charges against RFE in connection with the Hungarian Revolution are not founded on fact." The Council of Europe came to a similar conclusion.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

Cold War, office, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, tape recorder, transmission