The RFE/RL Broadcast and Corporate archives, which are housed at the Hoover Institution |http://www.hoover.org| (USA), cover the period from the creation of both Radios in the early 1950s until June 1995, when the corporation moved its broadcasting headquarters from Munich, Germany, to Prague in the Czech Republic. However, the Hoover collections do not include the archives of the RFE/RL Research Institute, which are housed at OSA Archivum.
The broadcast archives consist of some 61,000 reels of broadcast tapes, 7.5 million pages of broadcast transcripts and thousands of additional documents generated by the various broadcasting services of RFE and RL. Hungary-related tapes and transcripts were also copied and deposited at the National Library of Hungary.
The selected documents from the RFE/RL Corporate Archives are mostly special reports, prepared by the Audience Analysis Section of the Radios on the basis of the the findings of audience opinion surveys related to the Hungarian broadcasting activity in the 1950s.
See also the study written by A. Ross Johnson, Historian and Former Director of the RFE/RL Research Institute: Setting the Record Straight: Role of Radio Free Europe in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.