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June 10, 1954	Thomas W. Braden, 'Operation VETO' [Approved for Release May 6, 2019] CIA official Thomas Braden assures the State Department that RFE broadcasts which took sides in Czechoslovak factory council elections, as envisaged in FEC Czechoslovak Guidance No. 13, have ended. (The Guidance and the cited FEC telegram are available in the Hoover Archives and the Blinken Open Society Archives as FEC teletype NYC 29, June 8, 1954.)
April 30, 1948	George F. Kennan, 'The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare' State Department Policy Planning Director George Kennan outlines, in a document for the National Security Council, the idea of a public committee, working closely with the US government, to sponsor various émigré activities.
November 11, 1956	Department of State, Incoming Telegram No. 1270 The Embassy in Vienna reports that Radio Free Europe (RFE) staff recently detained in Hungary arrived safely in Austria.
November 9, 1956	Department of State, Incoming Telegram No. 1130 Text of a personal note sent by Ambassador Bohlen to Foreign Affairs Minister Gromyko regarding an American citizen being detained in Hungary.
November 9, 1956	Department of State, Incoming Telegram No. 1129 US Ambassador to Moscow Charles Bohlen reports that he is sending a personal note to Foreign Affairs Minister Gromyko.
November 8, 1956	Department of State, Outgoing Telegram to Moscow Embassy The State Department requests that the embassy find out the status of an American citizen who works for Radio Free Europe who was detained in Hungary by Soviet military authorities.
November 12, 1956	Radio Free Europe Encrypted Telex MUN 135, Richard Condon to W. J. Conerey Egan Richard Condon, Radio Free Europe (RFE) European Director reports the release of RFE staff from detention in Gyor, Hungary.
November 9, 1956	Radio Free Europe Encrypted Telex MUN 157, Richard Condon to W. J. Conerey Egan Richard Condon, Radio Free Europe (RFE) European Director reports on the border situation in late October and RFE staff who entered Hungary to report on the developing revolt there.
November 5, 1956	Radio Free Europe Encrypted Telex MUN 70, Richard Condon to W. J. Conerey Egan Richard Condon, the European Director of Radio Free Europe in Munich, messages with information about RFE personnel still inside Hungary.
1956	Frederick Hier, 'A Hungarian Diary' Frederick ("Fritz") Hier was an American employee of Radio Free Europe. He led a team which entered Hungary on October 31 to report on the events of the Hungarian Revolution. Hier was joined by RFE journalists Gabor Tormay from the Hungarian Service, Jerzy Ponikiewicz from the Polish Service, and a journalist from South German Radio, who helped tape RFE interviews in return for transportation. They reported the Revolution from Győr and nearby cities and interviewed heads of local revolutionary councils.