Sponsored by European Institute and part of Victoria Phillips’ Cold War class

Ross Johnson was a senior executive of RFE/RL from 1988 to 2002, serving as director of Radio Free Europe, director of the RFE/RL Research Institute, and acting president and counselor of RFE/RL. He was a senior staff member of the RAND Corporation from 1969 to 1988, where he specialized in East European and Soviet security issues. He was a visiting RAND research fellow at the Foundation for Science and Politics, Germany, in 1983–85. See more at: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/ross-johnson#sthash.5eMBJVa2.dpuf

He is the author of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. The CIA Years and Beyond(2010).