Badgecrazy
1984 OIJ International Organization of Journalists Avviversary Pin Badge
1984 OIJ International Organization of Journalists Avviversary Pin Badge
Regular price
£9.00 GBP
Regular price
Sale price
£9.00 GBP
Taxes included.
Quantity
Couldn't load pickup availability
-
A pretty pin badge from the OIJ who are the International Organisation of Journalists. The badge face is 2.2cm wide, made from a silver coloured metal and has a stick pin fastener to the rear.
-
Featuring the dates 1964 and 1984 and the number 20. It celebrates the organisations 20th anniversary.
- A declassified Central Intelligence Agency document from 1955, described the IOJ as "an instrumentality of Soviet propaganda". In a 2009 interview with the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, the Finnish professor Kaarle Nordenstreng who was the chairman of the IOJ 1976–1990, acknowledged that they took orders from the Kremlin.
