Much of the news that the Voice of America broadcasts to Jews in the Soviet Union is based on information obtained from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Daily News Bulletin and Weekly News Digest, William Dixon, chief of the VOA’s Soviet Union division told the JTA today. Dixon said of the JTA dispatches, “no doubt it is useful and it is being used.” The broadcasts aimed at Soviet Jews are in the Russian language and are part of the weekly half-hour religious news program beamed to the USSR, The program is broadcast Sunday mornings and repeated Monday nights. Dixon said the VOA obtained Jewish news from other sources including the AP, UPI and publications distributed by Jewish organizations in the US. The JTA material is “a definite help to us,” he said.
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