Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)’s mission is to promote democratic values by providing accurate, uncensored news and open debate in countries where a free press is threatened and disinformation is pervasive. Reporting in 24 languages to 18 countries, RFE/RL reaches nearly 50 million people every week. RFE/RL is a private nonprofit funded by the U.S. Congress through the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).www.rferl.org
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Sep 12, 2026
Bill CrowGUEST
In fact, well, it was...
Bill CrowGUEST
It was through, what, Radio Liberty turned out to be CIA.
Bill CrowGUEST
And they got in touch with me and said, did I have any addresses of people that I could send gifts to? Because as an organization, we couldn't send anything but individuals.
Bill CrowGUEST
So I'd send bass strings to the bass player and play around bass books, things like that.
GerdesHOST
A- and the church's head, Patriarch Kirill, has embraced Putin, not to mention the Ukrainian invasion itself, calling it a holy war.
GerdesHOST
By the way, this is carried in Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty.
GerdesHOST
Uh, Orthodox priests bless weapons and council troops at the front, and Putin has repeatedly framed the conflict in religious and historic terms.
GerdesHOST
Um, the author here says that Russia has a long tradition of believing that the right religious object can change events on the battlefield in a way it may smack slightly of desperation.
DustinHOST
Like, this is, like, I think they called it, like, the Valley of the...
DustinHOST
The Valley of the Ignorant, something like that during the Cold War, because even when they would broadcast like Radio Free Europe or they'd send radio signals into East Germany, because of its valley situation, they couldn't get a signal in there.
DustinHOST
So just, you know, generations of people that are former Soviets, and then, you know, obviously, Germany has been united for four decades now, I guess, if you count this, the decades, like 90s, 2000s, 2010s, and this one.
DustinHOST
But it's kind of like, it reminds me of like Donetsk and Luhansk being next to Russia.
Brian WhitmoreHOST
You were not.
Brian WhitmoreHOST
I covered that summit for Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and was watching it closely.
Brian WhitmoreHOST
And the U.S. was the main champion of Ukraine then.
Brian WhitmoreHOST
getting a membership action plan for NATO at that summit.
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Brian WhitmoreHOST
And I've noticed that it has gone beyond hair song.
Brian WhitmoreHOST
It's going to Zaporizhia as well.
Brian WhitmoreHOST
My former colleagues at Radio Free Europe had a very disturbing report out of Zaporizhia on this front.
Brian WhitmoreHOST
In this part of the podcast, always, Yuri, I give you a chance to plug your organization because I think you're doing great work.
Jonathan FinkHOST
The Prosecutor General's Office described an armed attack on an SBU investigative team by, in its own careful phrasing, a unit of Ukraine's defence forces.
Jonathan FinkHOST
Gur's account, via the commander of the Timur special unit speaking to Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, was that the SBU had kidnapped a serving Ukrainian officer in broad daylight, then shot unarmed men.
Jonathan FinkHOST
The next day the SBU released a confession video.
Jonathan FinkHOST
Kaplunov told Radio NV he had agreed to the SBU's version under psychological pressure.
Roland Elliott BrownHOST
You write that the East German and Hungarian governments in particular turned a blind eye to even specific attacks that they knew were going to happen.
Roland Elliott BrownHOST
Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian dictator, even hired Carlos to bomb the offices of Radio Free Europe, which he did in Munich, 1981.
Roland Elliott BrownHOST
So tell us about Carlos's relationship with the Eastern Bloc countries.
Joby WarrickGUEST
Yeah, it is a striking period of his life, and a number of chapters are devoted in the book to describing how this all went down.
Joby WarrickGUEST
What if we get Carlos to attack some of our enemies? He's kind of a mercenary.
Joby WarrickGUEST
He'll attack people for cash.
Joby WarrickGUEST
And so they approach him with this... really important job from their point of view, can you silence Radio Free Europe, this big international broadcaster that's based in Germany and in the city of Munich.
Joby WarrickGUEST
It broadcasts in local languages all across the East Bloc and into the Soviet Union itself.
Jonah GoldbergHOST
I cut my teeth in the early 90s working for Ben Wattenberg.
Jonah GoldbergHOST
He was a big... pro-democracy guy, Raider Free Europe, Radio Liberty guy, hung around the circles of Elliott Abrams and the human rights sort of Reaganite agenda thing.
Jonah GoldbergHOST
I still deeply committed to a lot of that stuff.
Jonah GoldbergHOST
But I'm also, you know, I get that you can't impose democracy at the point of a gun very well, and you can't have democracy sometimes overnight.
Joby WarrickGUEST
He... doesn't like to admit to things that he hasn't been convicted of.
Joby WarrickGUEST
And there are certain things like, if you read the book, you'll see that he, one of his big attacks in his historical career was bombing Radio Free Europe in Munich in 1981.
Joby WarrickGUEST
He set up this elaborate bombing.
Joby WarrickGUEST
It doesn't go off quite like he intended, but he succeeded in bombing this US-built, US-run international broadcaster and creating a lot of damage.
Scott FisherGUEST
If a refugee would come out, then they could claim refugee status.
Scott FisherGUEST
Radio Free Europe was essentially, and similar broadcasting capabilities were built around using refugees, right? To bringing them out, giving them the safety and then employing them to create content that was targeted back to your regime.
Scott FisherGUEST
So you have to... take care of both the back end and the front end.
Scott FisherGUEST
It's not just about the messaging.
Scott FisherGUEST
And so that Partly for pure humanitarian reasons and then partly for strategic reasons.
Scott FisherGUEST
You know, they have knowledge that could be useful.
Scott FisherGUEST
Again, going back to Radio Free Europe and some of the examples from the Cold War.
Scott FisherGUEST
VPNs, other capabilities, you have to create tools that can help shelter them, help protect them as they're engaging in.
AmandaHOST
Immediately after, reports that a student named Martin Smeed had been killed began to spread among the people.
AmandaHOST
Although this was not confirmed, it was soon reported on Radio Free Europe, which was like this huge underground...
AmandaHOST
And so people heard this and everybody started running with it and were freaking out that someone had that a student had been killed.
LucyHOST
But it wasn't true.
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