Chinese Counter-Revolutionary Clandestine Station Intervals (1966-1989)

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Vintage interval signals from underground (pirate) radio stations believed to be from the USSR, China or from Western agencies. These stations came around the Sino-Soviet split period, with the detonation of China's first atomic weapon, the Cultural Revolution and later with the Chinese political reforms. They broadcast "black propaganda" that were subversive and openly hostile to the Chinese government and leaders. Radio programs usually only 10-15 minutes long believed to be coming somewhere in the mainland might have been transmitting from the South China sea by boat or in nearby Russia and Taiwan. Broadcasters are either political dissidents who escaped the purge, rightists, exiles, and disgruntled PLA officers. Some stations could have been Vietnamese operatives backed by the KGB, or Kuomintang agents backed by the CIA, as pointed out by some media monitoring agencies. These broadcasts hoped to convince the average Chinese listener to participate in counter-revolutionary activities and overthrow the government or at least make them believe such a movement exists. It might also be Western intelligence agencies exploiting the rift between China and Russia. Radio broadcasts were assisted by various other psychological warfare methods found here: http://www.psywarrior.com/NationalistChinesePropaganda.html These and radio operations are not necessarily related. During the Sino-Soviet Split USSR and the PRC accused each other of betraying the Marxist-Leninist platform for various compromises they have had with the West. The stations went inactive during Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit to China and the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Credits Audio http://clandestineradio.com http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/conf/propaganda/musik.html (East is Red c.1972) https://www.youtube.com/user/noun12345 (Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No.9- Allegro con fuoco 1-2) References and images http://www.abiweb.jp/ (Asian Broadcasting Institute) http://www.psywarrior.com/NationalistChinesePropaganda.html http://www.radiodx.com/introduction-to-dxing/introduction-to-clandestine-dxing/clandestine-radio-wars-1980s/ http://www.skygaze.com/content/mysteries/MaoZedong.shtml Clandestine Confidential (Newsletter February, 1984) http://gopix.com http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/ http://commons.wikimedia.org http://nyu.edu/classes/keefer/mao http://chinaposters.net http://loc.gov http://smasholdthings.blogspot.com Marked * undetermined Note the obvious sound effects I added there to serve as segue for the actual recorded broadcast. This is also to compliment information segments. As for what the broadcasters are saying, they're announcing the station ID with minor derivations and repeatitions like "This is Spark! This is Spark! This is Spark!", "This is the New (Voice) of the People's Liberation Army" or "This is the Fighters."