How about Radio Free Europe?
Initially, both RFE and RL were funded principally by the U.S. Congress through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), but RFE also received supplemental private donations.
In 1971, all CIA involvement ended and thereafter RFE and RL were funded by Congressional appropriation through the Board for International Broadcasting (BIB) and after 1995 the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). The two corporations were merged into RFE/RL, Inc. in 1976.
http://www.rferl.org/info/history/133.html
Was NOT RFE specifically designed initially to deliver truth otherwise unavailable to the captives behind the Iron Curtain, therefore a tool of the Cold War?
That makes it a different circumstance than what Opinionated Blowhard is talking about.
I agree with O.B. completely.