Ted Lipien with his mentor, anti-Nazi underground Home Army radio coder in German-occupied Poland, journalist Zofia Korbońska, at the Voice of America Polish Service in Washington, DC, circa 1974. Faulty research by three British academics distorts the history of the Cold War. Tadeusz “Ted” Lipien This postcard was sent from Poland to the Voice of America Polish Service in the…
How Voice of America’s poor leadership entangled it in a spy scandal | Ted Lipien | THE HILL
Before Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, I wrote an op-ed for THE HILL on how the dangerous loopholes in security vetting of Voice of America (VOA) talent employed by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) led to the hiring of an alleged Russian spy to produce news reports for VOA from countries of the former Soviet Union. The alleged…
How hatred of a Trump official blinded Voice of America to Putin’s spying | my op-ed in The Washington Times
Former Voice of America (VOA) Russian-Spanish freelance news reporter Pablo Rubtsov González was greeted in Moscow by Russian President Vladimir Putin after exchange for American journalists imprisoned and held as hostages in Russia. Had I stayed at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty #RFERL, I would have continued to work for the release of imprisoned reporters and warned others in no uncertain…
Voice of America’s refusal to call Hamas attackers ‘terrorists’ helps to perpetuate violence | Ted Lipien in The Hill
A clip from raw footage posted by the Voice of America in 2017 without any balance. VOA’s refusal to call Hamas attackers ‘terrorists’ helps to perpetuate violence | BY TED LIPIEN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR FOR THE HILL Here is some background reading for my latest op-ed in The Hill, in which I react to how Voice of America (VOA) senior journalists,…
Why are US-funded USAGM journalists defending Russia, Iran over the Hamas massacre? – Ted Lipien Op-Ed in The Hill
My new op-ed in The Hill includes comments on the latest barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israeli civilians—defenseless Jewish women, children, and the elderly. I discuss the hard-to-understand and explain defense of propaganda and disinformation from Iran and Russia by U.S. government-managed and funded U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) journalists, including federal employees working for the Voice of America (VOA). They went…
I’m fortunate to have found and bought a rare autographed copy of Black Man in Red Russia by African American journalist Homer Smith Jr. He was a 20th-century fighter for freedom and human dignity who deserves to be admired and remembered by more people, as I wrote about him in a newspaper article. There is more information about Homer Smith…
Polish Radio Host Who Resigned from Voice of America to Avoid Broadcasting Soviet Propaganda Lies About Katyn Massacre
Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien We know of only one Voice of America (VOA) journalist, Konstanty Broel Plater, who resigned from his job at the U.S. government radio station during World War II in protest against the orders from the VOA management and the editors in the Office of War Information (OWI) in New York and Washington to…
Mark Pomar’s new book about the Cold War political radio could help American government officials unfamiliar with the history of U.S. international broadcasting. Mark Pomar’s book Cold War Radio [Mark G. Pomar, Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Lincoln: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2022), Amazon Link] is, in my…
I was born on May 10, 2022. I am a Polish Hound or Ogar Polski, a hunting dog indigenous to Poland. I now live in Portland, Oregon, with a Polish-American family, but I came to the U.S. on July 24, 2022, from Ogary Polskie z Poniatowskiego Dworku FCI in central Poland, run by award-winning Polish Hound breeders Anna and Łukasz…