SOVIET JAMMING OF VOICE OF AMERICA BROADCASTS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005615975
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: March 25, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-00412
• Publication Date: January 19, 1955

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This material contains Information'af(eetlnt the Na.
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage TAWS.- Title 18, U.S.C. Sew. 797'
and IN, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an'iinauthorized person is Prohibited
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR. 19 January 1955
SUBJECT 'Soviet JammingQtiLoice-of-America
Broadcasts
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN'THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.'
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Finding and Radio Information of the Council of Ministers. One engineer
received a Stalin Prize in approximately 1949 for the design of the equipmen
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an
'NVD control.
that it is a civilian one and believes that there is probably some
Jamming equipment is designed by engineers of the Committeg of Radio Direction
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APPROVED FOR RELEASE[]
DATE: 14-Mar-2011
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION' REPORT
Voice of America occasionally in Moscow. At
times a ro cas s can be he ; at others, they are blotted out by jam-
ming. Transmissions are much easier to pick up about 35 kilometers outside
of 1,bscow. Reception is much better when German rather than American or
Soviet vacuum tubes are used in the radio set.
which r
izati c nt, is jam min
appears all measures are ing t en to preven a ear ng of
3. Prior to World War II, it was possible in the Soviet Union to find handbooks
giving information on all of the radio stations of the world, including call
letters and hours of operation. Now it is not possible for the general public
-to find these- books, although they- mar-still be-used by -officials in the-Com-
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jamming is the respon-
si bility -of special units o the sov._c... n gn:^ Troops and that attached
to these units are represe tatdxes of the 'rst Chief Directorate of the MVP.
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