As ‘classical’ radio monitoring was—due to massive censorship—only of limited value for gathering uncensored information on Central and Eastern Europe, Radio Free Europe (RFE) relied in the early Cold War extensively on uncensored information brought out by émigrés. RFE interviewed fresh escapees not only to gain knowledge on everyday life but to also collect information on the practice and persecution of clandestine radio listening behind the Iron Curtain. Through the lens of RFE listeners’ testimonies and audience reports from the early 1950s, this article explores interviewing as an unorthodox method for gathering information about its own clandestine audiences in the target countries. It uses the Western gaze of individual defectors to better understand how highly subjective stories of clandestine listening were captured, narratively framed and employed in the ideological battle between East and West.

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与听众交谈：冷战初期的秘密听众

由于“经典”无线电监控（由于大规模审查）对于收集有关中欧和东欧的未经审查的信息的价值有限，因此自由欧洲电台 (RFE) 在冷战初期广泛依赖移民提供的未经审查的信息。RFE 采访了新逃犯，不仅是为了了解日常生活，而且是为了收集有关在铁幕后秘密收听广播的做法和迫害的信息。本文通过 RFE 听众的证词和 1950 年代初期的听众报告的镜头，探讨了采访作为一种非正统的收集目标国家秘密听众信息的方法。它利用个别叛逃者的西方凝视来更好地了解如何捕捉到秘密聆听的高度主观故事，