put him on austin harrison's. subject harrison. punished kept up his work with the b.b.c. executive for more than 6 years. the files make it clear that harrison increasingly believed in their friendship. meanwhile perspire received several honors from the shanty having harrison he had resumed his own law is onerous be very proud that he had the biggest enemy of the german democratic republic was telling him all sorts of things he shouldn't. did the stars we see more in austin harrison than just a journalist on a radio program it loath to. the answer could be here in whitehall home of the british foreign office. from here it managed m i 6 the secret service and at the time provided the b.b.c. world service with all of its funding. family all of us has investigated the links between the b.b.c. and the foreign office in doing so she has brought surprising documents to light about the secret information research department or i r d. the i r d was based in the foreign office up to 300 people working there in the fifty's and so they they basically spread anti communist propagand

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put him on austin harrison's case. subject heresy. hunnish kept up his work with the b.b.c. executive for more than 6 years. the files make it clear that harrison increasingly believed in their friendship. meanwhile the spying received several on us from the shasta. having harrison he had reason to his own lawyer in his own eyes we're very proud that he had the biggest enemy of the german democratic republic was telling him all sorts of things he shouldn't. did the stars you see more in austin herson than just the journalist on a radio program it loathed. the answer could be here in whitehall home of the british foreign office. from here it managed m i 6 the secret service and at that time provided the b.b.c. world service with all of its funding. family all over has investigated the links between the b.b.c. and the foreign office in doing so she has brought surprising documents to light about the secret information research department or i am. the i r d was based in the foreign office up to 300 people working there in the fifty's and so they they basically spread anti commun

austin harrison told his b.b.c. colleagues almost nothing about his regular trips to east germany. but he shared the details with a secret department in the foreign office these reports also went to the west german federal government in bonn as can be seen and documents from the political archives of the german foreign ministry. i have never heard of this but i am not surprised it really fits into overworked i often ask myself there is more to it then what i am presented here the feeling that there is more to it than we think there will be we this stuff basically very naive going about our business and thinking we are working for the b.b.c. . well through actually working for the foreign office i think this is what a lot of my colleagues never really grasped. even more explosive the b.b.c.'s regular analyses of letters from east german listeners. these were also sent to the i r d. highlighting the most relevant extracts it in turn passed on these findings about the political mood in the east to its west german allies. every 2 weeks as a matter of course these reports are listen the

put him on austin harrison's case. subjects' harrison. hunnish kept up his work with the b.b.c. executive for more than 6 years. the files make it clear that harrison increasingly believed in their friendship. meanwhile the spying received several on a us from the shanty. having harrison he had resume his own law is owners be very proud that he had the biggest enemy of the german democratic republic who was telling him all sorts of things you should. see more in austin harrison than just the journalist on a radio program it loads. the answer could be here in whitehall home of the british foreign office. from here it managed m i 6 the secret service and at that time provided the b.b.c. world service with all of its funding. family all over has investigated the links between the b.b.c. and the foreign office in doing so she has brought surprising documents to light about the secret information research department or i on the. the i.r.d. was based in the foreign office up to 300 people working there in the fifty's and so they they basically spread anti communist propaganda and they

in his radio program unsigned letters austin harrison commented on letters that reached him from communist east germany. dear radio london you give us hope help us please do it we trust you for decades thousands of east germans wrote to the b.b.c. reporting the day to day and political problems in their lives on the. but the letter writers had no idea that the popular b.b.c. radio program was at the center of a propaganda battle in divided germany. in 1938 o'clock would become the b.b.c. world service began radio broadcasts from london to other countries and languages their food london calling them. so you don't hear what so that the asylum ali. the b.b.c. also began broadcasting to germany and 938 when the war began a year later listening to it was banned but many risked their lives to tune into it as a reliable and reputable news source after the war ended the b.b.c. developed a special service for what became east germany because it received more and more letters from there at the beginning of the $950.00 s. the program unsigned letters began intended as a counterbalance to communist me

he seems to have been a bit of a mystery even to people who worked with him it seems austin harrison regularly travelled to east germany in the 1960 s. and seventy's the b.b.c. was one aware of his trips but it made little mention of them in its reporting. at the time peter sana became the host of a new b.b.c. music program and got to know him. personally went to the east germany for the fare and various other events like that and then he would come back with precious little about the work he had done what he had seen or conclusions. what does if you do there. by contrast harrison's trips to east berlin were always a special topic for east germany's feared secret police.

he seems to have been a bit of a mystery even to people who worked with him it seems austin harrison regularly travelled to east germany in the 1960 s. and seventy's the b.b.c. was one aware of his trips but it made little mention of them and its reporting. time peter's son became the host of a new b.b.c. music program and got to know him. personally went to east germany to for the fair and various other events like that and then he would come back with precious little about the work he had done what he had seen or conclusions. you do there. by contrast harrison's trips to east berlin were always a special topic for east germany's feared secret police. they always kept a close watch.

s german service it was headed by richard o'rourke and austin harrison both former army officers the documents show how intensively the propaganda specialists from the foreign office and the 2 leading b.b.c. journalists were together. in harrison told his b.b.c. colleagues almost nothing about his regular trips to east germany. but he shared the details with a secret department in the foreign office these reports also went to the west german federal government in bonn as can be seen in documents from the political archives of the german foreign ministry. i have never heard of this but i am not surprised it really fits into what i often asked myself there is more to it then what i am presented here the feeling that there is more to it than we think there will be we this stuff basically very naive going about our business and thinking we are working for the b.b.c. . well through actually working for the foreign office who think this is what a lot of my colleagues never really grasped. even more explosive by the b.b.c.'s regular analyses of letters from east german listeners. these were