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Coast Guard Honors Joint Cold War Mission With VOA


Coast Guard Honors Joint Cold War Mission With VOA
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In 1952, amidst the Cold War, a 338-foot Coast Guard Cutter was transformed into the mobile broadcasting base of the Voice of America. Its mission for more than a decade: send information beyond the Iron Curtain to counter Soviet propaganda in more than a dozen native languages.

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