51 years of RFE/RL: How the CIA-founded American state run media outlet survived the Soviet collapse to fight Cold War 2.0 -- RT World News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : While there can be disagreement over whether RFE/RL continues to be necessary after the end of communism, or whether it in fact can be seen as unnecessarily stoking old Cold War tensions, the one thing that can be said of RFE/RL is that it does not, and really cannot, hide what it is.
57% : After the collapse of communism, RFE/RL followed wherever US foreign policy aims were focused.
56% : For its part, the state-run outlet has justified its continued existence as follows: "With the collapse of communism, some thought RFE/RL had fulfilled its mission and could be disbanded.
55% : You may ask what this says about EU and the US, today.
51% : Thus, as it explains itself, it started broadcasting in the former Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s as the US and NATO began meddling there, and expanded beyond Europe in the late 1990s to Iraq and Iran "[r]eflecting American attention to the greater Middle East..."
49% : And it was CIA Director Allen Dulles - the mastermind behind the overthrow of democratic governments in countries like Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) - who greenlit the secret financing of RFE/RL in the hope that it would contribute to the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

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