CWAR

Victoria Phillips Quoted About Radio Free Europe

January 10, 2019
Sally Gimson and Victoria Phillips stand beside a banner for "Index: the voice of free expression"

Victoria Phillips, who leads the Cold War Archives Research (CWAR) Program - previously "Radio Free Europe (RFE) Research Fellowship", was quoted by Sally Gimson in an article "Project freedom? Radio Free Europe was at the frontline of Cold War reporting. Three decades on, is it still needed?" in Index on Censorship.

Excerpt below:

Victoria Phillips, who runs the RFE research project at Columbia University, told Index: “These men [who founded RFE] … really did believe in the power of truth and freedom of ideas, and when I read about some of those people, you don’t like the fact that they tried to invade places, and they had coups, but in the end the core was a belief in the power of ideas, and if ideas are allowed to vent then good will take place…”

- Gimson, S. (2017). Project freedom? Radio Free Europe was at the frontline of Cold War reporting. Three decades on, is it still needed? Index on Censorship, 46(3), 11–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306422017730784