Invest a "Truth Dollar" in Radio Free Europe
A Crusade for Freedom advertisement asks Americans to 'Invest a "Truth Dollar" in Radio Free Europe', with George Washington's portrait framed like a banknote and ringed with dollar signs. The word 'Truth' stands in for any statement of who funded the station, which until 1971 was mainly the U.S. government through the CIA; Washington lends the founding era's prestige to the appeal.
- Date
- 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Crusade for Freedom / National Committee for a Free Europe (covertly funded by the CIA)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Banknotes and coins
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Media and information, Economy and finance
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Narrative launderingGlittering generalitiesTransfer
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Crusade for Freedom (1954); via Cold War Radios / Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Invest a "TRUTH DOLLAR" in Radio Free Europe
