"On October 8, 1969, ______ _______[of] Radio Station WNYC,  Municipal Building, New York City provided the following information:  It is not known to ____how Radio Station WNYC first received taped programs from Radio Moscow.  In this respect ___does not know whether WNYC initiated the action or whether Radio Moscow initiated the action.  ____believes that possibly WNYC first began receiving taped programs from Radio Moscow as a result of some cultural exchange program.  This relationship began approximately four years ago and when it became known to _____ _____ WNYC, that Radio Moscow would make taped programs available, ____made it known to Radio Moscow that WNYC would be glad to receive any taped programs that Radio Moscow wanted to make available.  Programs based on tapes from Radio Moscow are not presented on a regular basis. Tapes are received from Radio Moscow on an irregular basis.  As a practice, WNYC does not present any taped programs from Radio Moscow which are news commentary. These are automatically discarded by WNYC.  For the most part, programs received from Radio Moscow deal with information regarding trade unions and in the field of culture, especially art and music.  When programs are received from Radio Moscow they are edited by the staff from WNYC and information known to be false, a distortion of the truth, or pure propaganda in nature, is edited out before being presented to the listening public…"

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