DIRECTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISIION ORGANIZATION (OIRT)

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• Publication Date: May 15, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIUCTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL
RADIO AND TELEVISION ORGANIZATION (GIRT)
15 May 1961
(This directory is based on information
received by 31 April 1961)
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DIRECTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL
RADIO AND TELEVISION ORGANIZATION (GIRT)
15 May 1961
CONTENTS
1. Headquarters
II. National Affiliates
III. Biographies
Mil I
Sergey Vasil'yevich Kaftanov
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Organisation Internationale de Radiodiffusion et Television
. Headquarters
Address
Officers
President
Vice Presidents
Liebknechtova 15, Prague XVI, Czechoslovakia.
Petro Kito (Albania)y 19-60.
Yu Yong Pyo (North Korea) A-9.
Laszlo Cacs (Hungary)( Agri-4459.
Secretary General Jaromir Hrebik (Czechoslovakia).10.
Publications Information Bulletin, published by the Editorial
Board of OIRT
Radio and Television, editor, A. Suchy
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3I. National Affiliates
(Note: Representation appears to be by governments through their
designated officials rather than by organized national
affiliates. )
Albania
Albanian Broadcasting Service
Director: Petro Kito
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Broadcasting Service
De artment__of Radio Inform. tion ,
of the Ministry'o Gultur I+ lilshio Nikolov
Byelorussia
Byelorussian Broadcasting Organization
Chairman: V. Perkovsky
China (Communist)
Radio and Televl*,u*n. Committee of the Chinese'
hairman: MEII
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia Radio and Television Committee
Chairman: F. Necasek
Estonia SSR
Estonian Radio
Director; : L. Kaik
Finnish Broadcasting Company
Director General: Einar Sundstrom
Germany (East)
German Democratic Broadcasting Service
Deputy Chairman: Wolfgang Kleinert
Hungary
Hungarian Radio Committee
Chairman: Laszlo Cacs
Iraqi Radio and Television Organization
Director: Dr. D. Ayub
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Korea (North)
Central Radio Committee of the Korean People's Democratic Republic
Vice Chairman: Yu Yong Pyo
Latvian Radio
Chairman: J. Lemanis
Lithuania SS,9:
Lithuanian Broadcasting Service
Director: I. Januitis
Moldavian Radio
Director: V. Ylyanov
Mongolia
State Radio Committee of the Mongolian People's Republic
Chairman: L. Puribe
Polish Broadcasting Service
Chairman: Wlodzimierz Sokor ski
Rumania
Rumanian Broadcasting Service
Head: N. Skatchko
State Radio and Television Committee
Chairman: S. Kaftanov
Vietnam (North)
Broadcasting Organization of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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Mei I was born in 1915 at Swatow in Kwangtung province. His status
as a publicist is roughly equal to that of 'I-eag To Wwlsi and Chin
Chung-hua. Like these men $ei I first established his reputation as a news-
paperman,
As director of the Broadcasting Affairs Bureau of Peiping's State
yrt e?/~r'?v T?~'il,v4t r' +' gilce/%li /'Cef-t
r-11nnil and a vice president of the C lti 3-e rna4f4tia Worke-raw 4Haorwiation, .
MT.i I rftr he 4ea g executors ~f Chinese communist propaganda
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policy. In addition/has served one.termas president of the International
Radio and Television Or ganizatiorn (1953) g
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Mei I joined the i':t+sA Communist Party sometime 1937
when he was engaged in newspaper work in Shanghai. After the Sino-Japanese
war broke out he took part in activities of the League of Leftist Writers in
Shanghai and Hong Kong. Before 1949 Mci I served as a member of the
administrative board and deputy chief editor of the New China News Agency.
nn_ _n _ PeopleIs Republic of China waa&.,org-ani-ed- e?-wae- appointed deputy
eeter of the BBreetd east rreau- ?f the_I~Te inistrati:c tf; V e the
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l . _ . tter. wets shed' n 1952 Aei I became director of the Bureau of Broad-
casting Enterprises. When the Peiping regime was reorganized in 1954',he
was appointed to his present position as director of the Broadcasting
Affairs Bureau.
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In 1954 lei I became a member of the board of directors of the
Chinese People's Association for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
as well as a deputy in the First National People's Congress. In 1956 he
was chosen as a member of the Central Work Committee for the
Popularization of Standard and Spoken Chinese. From 1949 to 1952 Ivi I
served as alternate member of the First National Committee of the All
China Federation of Democratic Youth,and since 1949 he has been a member
of the Chinese People's' Consultative Conference.
Mei's travel abroad has included a trip to Budapest in 1952 and a trip
to Prague in 1953 to attend meetings of the International Radio and Television
Organization.
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Sergey Vasil'yevich Kaftanov
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S. V. Kaftanov was born in 1907 presumably in the Donets Basin.
He is said to have completed a factory training course and to be a graduate
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of the Chemical Technological Institute in Moscow. He is also .ege4 to
have studied arty propaganda and pedagogical work.
Kaftanov is the hairman of the State Radio and Television Committee
attached to the Central Council of Ministers of the USSR. He began his
political career when he was named in 1937 as chairman of the Committee
on Affairs of Higher Education attached to the Council of People's Commissars.
At the 18th All Union Party Congress held in March 1939 Kaftanov was elected
to candidate membership on the )arty Central Committee.
In addition to his regular duties Kaftanov served as a member and
sometimes as deputy chairman of the Committee on Station Prizes in the
field of science and invention from 1942-1949. Although not a member of the
USSR Academy of Sciences, he served in 1944 as a member of the cademy's
Commission on Medical Education.
Kaftanov was appointed Minister of Higher Education in 1946. As such
he was hairman of the Presidium of the Ministry's Council on Scientific
Methods. He was a member of the All Union Society for the dissemination
of Political and Scientific knowledge in May 1947.
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Kaftanov failed to appear among the other
Prize Committee in 1950 nor did he register as a
the Supreme Soviet in that year. In February 195
other work and was not subsequently identified un
appeared First Deputy inisterhof Culture.
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embers of the Stalin
-andidate for reelection to
he was transferred to
it June 1953 when he
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