TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST BY FULTON LEWIS, JR.

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• Publication Date: January 22, 1958
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TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST
By
Fulton Lewis, Jr.
Station WGMS at 7-7:15 P.M.
22 January 1958
Now let's get around once again to the Crusade for Free-
dom and Radio Free Europe and I want to get down to the grass
roots operating level tonight and give you a look at what is
happening there. It's all very well for big corporation execu-
tives to lend their names and their time and to give big con-
tributions for the support of these operations out of their
stockholders earnings, and it is all very well for them to
give out with a lot of platitudes to the effect that they
are confident that Radio Free Europe is doing great work.
Actually they can not be confident of any such thing, un-
less they know what the broadcast material is that Radio
Free Europe is beaming behind the Iron Curtain; the tenor
of it; the ideology which it bespeaks. And all of this is
dependent in very large measure on the individuals who do
the policy-making and the editing and the broadcasting at
the actual scene of operations in Munich, Germany, and at
its affiliated broadcast transmitter and relay points.
The Crusade for Freedom denies very bitterly that it
has any pinkos or socialists in its organization and it
has distributed this denial far and wide. I propose to
demonstrate to you tonight that this denial is a categori-
cal falsehood and will name some names and some dates and
some places to prove the point. In the first place, I al-
ready have reported to you that Ferdinand Perutka himself, a
collaborator with the Russian Communists in Czechoslovakia
until the Russians threw him out, is in charge of the Czecho-
slovakian desk of Radio Free Europe. As his economic adviser,
he has Milos Vanek (sic), one of the original co-signers of
the Second Comintern Manifesto of 1921 along with Lenin and
Trotsky, with several others too. You know the picture of
the revolutionists, the raid at the table with all the beards.
Also in the Radio Free Europe family was Hubert Ripka one of
the great mass murderers of the present day, a man who was
responsible for the slaughter of 300,000 Sudeten Germans and
who said afterwards that he had no regrets about it, that he
would do it again.
Now let's see who some of the lesser figures are in the
operation, or who they have been in the past. There was a
young man named Bruno Volta (sic), an escapee from Czecho-
slovakia who was employed in the youth program propaganda in
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Munich until 1954. In that year he suddenly defected and went
back behind the Iron Curtain where he showed up saying that he
had voluntarily defected so that he could work against the West.
What he told about conditions among refugees in the free West
was exploited at great length by the Communist propaganda broad-
casts for a period of many weeks. He said over the Prague radio
that he had lived in a state of semistarvation in the West and
that after accepting a job as an announcer for Radio Free Eu-
rope, they sent him to Czechoslovakia equipped with weapons and
with false papers. On seeing how prosperous the Communist home-
land was, he said, he realized how he had been misused by the
West and voluntarily surrendered to the Czech authortities. He
described in considerable detail the aims and the methods of
Radio Free Europe.
Also there was a man by the name of Bohumil Louseman, a
high official of Radio Free Europe in Munich, but let me read
you a United Press dispatch on this one, dateline Vienna. "A
former leading Czechoslovak "anti-Communist" who fled to the
West four years ago turned up back in his red ruled homeland
today in time to harangue Czech voters against America on a
day set for local elections. All Czech radio stations carried
a broadcast by former Deputy Premier Louseman who fled to the
West on New Year's Day 1950, and voters went to the one-party
polls under a rain of freedom ballots, sent by balloons from
the West by the Crusade for Freedom of Munich, Germany. When
Louseman, the Social Democratic party's leader before the Com-
munists took over in Czechoslovakia, fled his post in Prague,
he left behind his wife and daughter. He took up residence
in Salzburg, headquarters of the American forces in Austria;
last December 23rd he vanished. The Prague radio today broad-
cast a recording of what Louseman said at a so-called press
conference yesterday at Prague. He said that he returned
voluntarily to Czechoslovakia on Christmas Day because his
conscience was burdened with heavy crimes he had committed
against his country."
Here's another one, and I have a long list of these, but
a few are enough to give the lie to the Radio Free Europe's
statement about no pinkos. This a direct quotation, a direct
translation from a Munich newspaper of about a year ago: "Radio
Prague has announced the return of the refugee Carol Casal (sic)
and his wife Helena Vushova Catsolova who before the war was
among the most well-known movie actresses. Carol Casal served
during the Second World War as a major in the British air force.
He had obtained British citizenship. Helena Vushova until the
middle of last year was employed in the Czech division
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of the Munich Radio Free Europe as was Casal, until May of this
year. When he submitted his resignation, he declared that he
would return to England. In a statement published by one of
the Czech press bureaus, he speaks of homesickness as the chief
reason for his return. In addition he maintained that in the
West hostile actions against Czechoslovakia were being planned,
which further strengthened his decision."
That's sufficient to paint the general picture, and as I
say there are a lot more, but why burden you with them. These
are the people who were on the Radio Free Europe payroll at the
actual operating level who defected to the Communists, went
back home to be used by the Communists, in propaganda designed
to discredit the West. It is for these that the Crusade for
Freedom collects truth dollars, to beam what they call the mes-
sage of hope and freedom behind the Iron Curtain.
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