The
Voice of
America is the
U.S. government's foreign
broadcasting service. It is supposed to tell the
truth about American and
world news in locations that may or may not have access to other news sources. Different VOA stations broadcast in different locations, not always to the pleasure of the governments of those locations, especially during the
Cold War --
Robert A. Heinlein, in '"
Pravda" Means "
Truth,"' a description of his
1960 trip to the
Soviet Union, mentions that he tried to listen to the Voice of America in
Vilnius (now part of
Lithuania) and it was jammed.
The web site at www.voa.gov says they currently broadcast in these languages (I know several of these are locations rather than languages):