U.S.-BACKED RADIO OPENED IN KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000401500001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 28, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000401500001-7
AUG 2 8 1966
U.S.-BACKED RADIO
OPENED IN KOREA
Anti-Red Programs Sent to
Red China and Vietnam :
1,ecitt1 to The New York Times
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 27
?A new anti-Communist radio
station financed by a. private.
American organization went on
the air here this month. It is.
called Radio of Free Asia.
Using the 500,000-kilowatt;
transmitter of a South Korean.
Government station, it can be
heard in North Korea, China
and Vietnam.
The Korean Cultural and
, Freedom Foundation, with main
offices in Washington, says the
broadcasting operation "backs
up our military efforts in Asia ?
?and projects ideas of freedom
to' millions of people cut off
from the outside world by the ?
Bamboo Curtain."
Radio of Free Asia went into
operation Aug. 15, the day Ko-
reans celebrated the 21st anni-
versary of their liberation from
Japanese rule.
Lawrence L. Mays, the foun-.
dation's international chairman,
who came to Seoul from Wash-
'ington to inaugurate the radio,
said the first programs would
be broadcast six hours a week,
Monday through Thursday, in
the Korean and Chinese lan-
guages. They include news, com-
mentary and, press reviews, reli-
? gious, educational and cultural
; programs.
"In the neSr future we plan:
? to start broadcasting in Viet-
namese," he said. "When funds
permit, we want to build our
own transmission facilities so
, that we can increase the broad-
'casting hours.. Our immediate
goal is to raise $250,000, and
Iso far about 5,000 Americans
:have made contributions."
Among the supporters, he
said, are former Presidents
Harry S. Truman and Dwight
0. Eisenhower, who are hon.
? orary presidents of the found&
? tion, a nonprofit organization
for the promotion of cultural
'exchanges between Korea and
the United States.
A fund-raising dinner will be
:held in Baltimore Oct. 12.
:Another backer of Radio Free
?Asia is Dr. You Chan Yang,
'former South Korean Ambassa-
dor in Washington and now an
Ambassador at Large.
Dr. Yang said: "It is very
sigInificant to start our project
at a time when Asia has taken
on great importance In the free
world's fight against Commu-
nism and our boys are battling
Communist aggression in Viet-
:nam." ?
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000401500001-7