{"id":23552,"date":"2017-01-21T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T13:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23552"},"modified":"2017-01-21T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T13:32:09","slug":"cold-war-radio-treasure-trove-the-cia-freedom-of-information-act-reading-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/cold-war-radio-treasure-trove-the-cia-freedom-of-information-act-reading-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold War radio treasure trove: The CIA Freedom of Information Act Reading room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Document.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23554\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Document.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Document.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Document-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Document-624x338.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/alexander-von-obert\/\">Alexander (DL4NO)<\/a>, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just found a German reference to the CIA Freedom of Information Act Reading room<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/readingroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/readingroom\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Reading-Room.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23555\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Reading-Room.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Reading-Room.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Reading-Room-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CIA-Reading-Room-624x99.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a first test I searched for \u201cradio design\u201d. A few of the documents found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ACTIVITIES OF AMATEUR RADIO DESIGNERS<\/li>\n<li>JPRS ID: 8744 TRANSLATION ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING DESIGN FOR RADIO-ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT<\/li>\n<li>DOSO INSTRUCTION FOR AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS; BULGARIAN RADIO EQUIPMENT PRODUCTION<\/li>\n<li>AIRCRAFT RADIO COMMUNICATIONS IN THE USSR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This could be an amazing source, especially of historical information from the Eastern Block. But expect any search to be real work: Only the title and some classification of the documents are searchable. The rest is scanned documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very cool&#8211;thanks for sharing, Alexander. I spent a little time this morning browsing the results using various radio-related search strings. It is a <em>very<\/em> deep archive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/readingroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to search the CIA reading room.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alexander (DL4NO), who writes: I just found a German reference to the CIA Freedom of Information Act Reading room https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/readingroom\/ As a first test I searched for \u201cradio design\u201d. A few of the documents found: ACTIVITIES OF AMATEUR RADIO DESIGNERS JPRS ID: 8744 TRANSLATION ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING DESIGN FOR RADIO-ELECTRONIC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[2268,5852,752,3067],"class_list":["post-23552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-alexander-von-obert-dl4no","tag-cia-freedom-of-information-act-reading-room","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-67S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23861,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/75-years-ago-today-voa-started-german-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":23552,"position":0},"title":"75 years ago today, VOA started German broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"February 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alexander (DL4NO), who writes: Hello Thomas, I just heard a short feature on Deutschlandfunk: 75 years ago today VoA started transmitting \u2013 in German. vy 73 Alexander DL4NO Many thanks for the tip, Alexander! 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Alexander has kindly allowed me to post his\u00a0notes here on the SWLing Post. Alexander writes: The first booth I visited was of Dokufunk (http:\/\/www.dokufunk.org\/). 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