'51: Soviets are expert jammers
215: various forms of jamming
-put noise machine in front of mic
-White noise- "Headache inducing squawks"
-loud music
"The conflict over jamming was one of the many miniwars fought within the overall context of the Cold War, albeit one waged by scientists and engineers rather than generals...The jamming war was an emblematic Cold War contest, since it indirectly involved the competition of ideas." (P, 215)
"The Kremlin entered this struggle with an attitude similar to that which guided its arms buildup. Just as Moscow was determined to match the United States, weapon for weapon, bomb for bomb, no matter how onerous the burden to the creaking Soviet economy, so the Kremlin leadership was willing to devote billions of dollars to minimize the influence of foreign ideas on its population. Some Western analysts estimate that by the 1970s, the Soviets were spending more to jam Western broadcasts than the West spent on its broadcasts to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe." (P 215-216)
jamming and monitoring- 216
216-217 RFE fights back, ultimatley a stalemate
218: Solzhenitsyn on jamming
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