DIRECTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION ORGANIZATION (OIRT)

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• Publication Date: May 15, 1961
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DIRECTORY OF THE
INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND
TELEVISION ORGANIZATION (OIRT)
15 May 1961
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DIRECTORY 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
I. Headquarters Personnel
II. National Affiliates
III. Biographies
MEI I
Sergey Vasil'yevich Kaftanov
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International Radio and Television Organization
(Organisation Internationale de Radiodiffusion et Television, OIRT)
I. Headquarters
Address Liebknechtova 15, Prague XVI, Czechoslovakia.
Officers
President Petro Kito (Albania
Vice Presidents YU Yong Pyo (North Korea).
Laszlo Cacs (Hungary).
Secretary General J'aromir Hrebik (Czechoslovakia).
Publications Information Bulletin, published by the Editorial
Board of )DIRT
Radio and Television,, editor, A. Suchy
U.' 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
Department of Radio Information of the Ministry of Culture
Director: Mishio Nikolov
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Byelorussia
Byelorussian Broadcasting Organization
Chairman: V. Perkovsky
China (Communist)
Radio and Television Committee of the Chinese People's Republic
Chairman: MEI I
Czechoslovakia Radioi-and Television Committee
Chairman: F. Necasek
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
Iraq
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: Yt' Yong Pyo
Latvian Radio
Chairman: J. Lemanis
Lithuania SSR
Lithuanian Broadcasting Service
Director: I. Januitis
Moldavia SSR
Moldavian Radio
Director: V. Ylyanov
Mongolia
State Radio Committee of the Mongolian People's Republic
Chairman: L. Puribe
Poland
Polish Broadcasting Service
Chairman: Wlodzimierz Sokorski
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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III. Biographies
MEI I (China)
MEI I was born in 1915 at Swatow in Kwangtung province. His status
as a publicist is roughly equal to that of TENG To and CHIN Chung-hua.
Like these men MEI I first established his reputation as a newspaperman.
As director of the Broadcasting Affairs Bureau of Peiping's State
Council and a vice president of the All China Journalists Association, MEI I
ranks high among those leaders charged with the conduct of Chinese Com-
munist propaganda policy. In addition he has served one term (1953) as
president of the International Radio and Television Organization.
MEI I joined the Communist Party of China sometime before 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 MEI I served as a member of the
administrative board and deputy chief editor of the New China News Agency.
In 1952 MEI I became director of the Bureau of Broadcasting Enterprises.
When the Peiping regime was reorganized in 1954, he was appointed to his
present position as director of the Broadcasting Affairs Bureau.
In 1954 MEI 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 MEI I served as an 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 Political
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 Vasillyevich Kaftanov
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
of the Chemical Technological Institute in Moscow, He is also said to have
studied party propaganda and pedagogical work.
Kaftanov is the chairman 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 Iii gher Education attached to the Council of People's Com-
missars. At the 18th All Union Party Congress held in March 1939 Kaftanov wa
was elected to candidate membership on the party's Central Committee.
In addition to his regular duties Kaftanov served as a member and
sometimes as deputy chairman of the Committee on Stalin 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
academy's Commission on Medical Education.
Kaftanov was appointed Minister of Higher Education in 1946. As csu.ch
he was chairman 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.
Kaftanov failed to appear among the other members of the Stalin Prize
Committee in-.A950 nor did he register as a candidate for reelection to the
Supreme Soviet in that year. In February 1951 he was transferred to other
work and was not subsequently identified until Jd ie 19539 when he appeared as the
the first deputy minister in the Ministry of Culture.
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