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	HU OSA 305-1-1
Fonds 305:	Records of the Black Box Foundation
Subfonds 1:	Films of the Black Box Foundation
Series 1:	Interviews Relating to the History of RFE/RL

Date(s) 1989-1996

Extent and medium

2 Archival boxes, 0.25 linear meters
36 VHS, 1 linear meters

Scope and content

About 90 hours of interviews with former RFE/RL employees, including Heads of Desks of the radios. Also includes interviews with leading intellectuals, former dissidents and members of opposition movements from Central and Eastern Europe, relating to the history and perception of RFE/RL broadcasts.

Some of the highlights of this acquisition include interviews with James McCargar, (former President of the Free Europe Committee); Ralph Walter (President, Programs and Policy at RFE); László Kasza (Editor at RFE Hungarian Desk); report by Géza Ekecs (Program Editor at Hungarian Desk) about the operations and functioning of RFE/RL and an interview with Endre Boruszik (engineer, worked at Hungarian Post Office jamming stations).

Accruals Not expected

Conditions governing access Open for research

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright is held by Fekete Doboz Alapítvány

Language/scripts of material

English, Hungarian, Polish (Mainly English)

Finding aids

• 36 containers | #2 2 containers

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Ágnes Bencsik 2001 and Miklós Tamási April 2003.
Described by Zsuzsanna Zadori May 2003.
Proofread By Christopher Ryan 1 June 2003.
Online version updated 19 April 2012