As I prepared to share the radio interview created by Moses Nagel for the Hudson Mohawk Magazine on the Capital Region’s Sanctuary Radio (WOOC-LP 105.3 FM), it struck me that while my father, James E. Welch, worked in radio in Vietnam and Korea, I had never heard of an instance of him being on the air.
As a project officer for the clandestine propaganda “gray” radio station, Mother Vietnam (1972-75), he worked only from behind the scenes and he was never front and center before an audience.
That’s not to say that he didn’t have some penchant for speaking out.
After he retired from the CIA in 1976, he did write some opinion pieces that were published in our local newspaper, The Honolulu Advertiser, and once (that I know of) in The Far Eastern Economic Review.
We live in a curious time in which “broadcasting” has become ubiquitous and exceedingly accessible (my YouTube Channel is a case in point), and yet I think that there is something quite elegant about a carefully curated radio program.
I hope you agree and enjoy this 10-minute story by Moses Nagel featured recently on Sanctuary Radio (WOOC-LP 105.3 FM). Please let me know what you think by commenting or replying to this email.
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