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November 24, 1956	Radiogram, Korpital to Manila A message urging President Magsaysay to sign the message sent to President Eisenhower, about responding to the events in Hungary.
October 24, 1956	Memorandum from [redacted] for Chief, ICD, ‘Guidance to Radio Liberation from New York on Satellite Situation’ The International Operations Division officer responsible for Radio Liberty notes to Cord Meyer his disagreement with RL’s policy of avoiding all commentary on the Hungarian Revolution. He cites Meyer’s intention to discuss the issue with AMCOMLIB president Sargeant.
March 12, 1962	Alexei Adzhubei's Account of His Visit to Washington to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Alexei Adzhubei, Khrushchev’s son-in-law and the editor-in-chief of Izvestia, reports on his meetings with US journalists and officials in Washington, DC. Especially significant was his 30 January meeting with President John F. Kennedy in which Kennedy compared the communist revolution in Cuba with the 1956 Hungarian Revolution suppressed by the Soviet Union. Adzhubei also described Kennedy's comments on German reunification.
November 16, 1956	Proposed Interim Policy Guidance for Free Europe Committee, Second Draft Second draft of “Proposed Interim Guidance for FEC” prepared for Allen Dulles to forward [over his disclosed pseudonym] to the FEC.
April 5, 1962	Reprise of Radio Free Europe and the Hungarian Revolution Cord Meyer reviews the history for DCI John A. McCone
September 1, 1957	Policy Guidance for Radio Free Europe on UN Special Session on Hungary International Organizations Division drafts policy guidelines for RFE broadcasts
June 5, 1957	Radio Free Europe Coverage of Imre Nagy Reviewed An International Organizations Division (IOD) officer in the CIA critically reviews treatment of Imre Nagy in RFE Hungarian broadcasts in October-November 1956
February 28, 1957	Policy Guidance for Radio Broadcasting to Hungary Robert Murphy and Allen Dulles agree that Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America should treat the March 15 anniversary of Hungarian Independence Day with caution.
December 26, 1956	Interviews with Hungarian Refugees on Western Broadcasts Bonn Embassy official T.M. Rechnagel, reports his impressions of interviews with some 100 refugees in the Salzburg area in December
December 20, 1956	Telegram No. 2416 from Bonn to the Secretary of State The Bonn Embassy conveys to Washington the results of the German review of tapes of RFE broadcasts to Hungry from October 23 to November 10.