International Organization of Journalists

Logotype of the IOJ

The International Organization of Journalists (IOJ, French: Organisation internationale des journalistes) was an international press workers' organization based in Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the Cold War. It was one of dozens of front organizations launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s and early 1950s.[1][2] It was controlled in Prague by the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, with the assistance of KGB agents.[3] It was described by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as "an instrumentality of Soviet propaganda".[4]

  1. ^ Jeffrey T. Richelson (1997). A century of spies: intelligence in the twentieth century. p. 252.
  2. ^ Ralph And Brown Fred R. Sanders (2008). National Security Management: Global Psychological Conflict. p. 31.
  3. ^ Political posters in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945-95: signs of the times. James Aulich, Marta Sylvestrová. p. 66
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference TNR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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