This article investigates on the basis of letters to Radio Free Europe how the ersatz coupling of sensory data streams impacted the political imagination before and after 1989. While reconstructing the medial configuration of a clandestine information flow and reflecting on the micro-powers involved, the article follows the case through its own archival visibility, thus capturing the very tension between seeing and hiding. Going both “along the archival grain” to capture the epistemic anxieties of governance, and “against the archival grain” to retrieve from the hermetic tectonic of archival layers the story of a Cold War trickster, offers a better understanding of the epistemic limits of the Cold War archives and thus to map and transgress them.

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自由欧洲电台的眼睛：冷战档案中的可见性制度

本文基于给自由欧洲电台的信件调查了 1989 年前后感官数据流的替代耦合如何影响政治想象。在重构秘密信息流的中间配置并反思所涉及的微观权力的同时，文章通过它自己的档案可见性来跟踪这个案例，从而捕捉到了看到和隐藏之间的紧张关系。既“沿着档案纹理”捕捉治理的认知焦虑，又“反对档案纹理”从档案层的密封构造中检索冷战骗子的故事，可以更好地理解冷战档案，从而映射和超越它们。