Perhaps because they may have caused people to think and might still do so?

"believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
came home, home to a lie,
home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places."

 -lamentable irony that might once again result in disgusted veterans
throwing their medals onto the Capital steps.

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>From: DL <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Pound's radio broadcasts
>Date: Sun, Oct 20, 2002, 10:54 AM
>

> Hi! There are at NARA at College Park, Maryland. The access is limited to
> some tapes. I don't know why there are prohibited. Bureaucrats still censure
> him.
>
> 262.4 SOUND RECORDINGS (GENERAL)
> 1940-47
> Sound Recordings: Chiefly foreign broadcasts monitored by the Foreign
> Broadcast Intelligence Service, ca. 1940-45, including broadcasts by Ezra
> Pound from Italy, October 2, 1941-July 24, 1943.
>
> Dante Loss
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Burt Hatlen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 9:07 AM
> Subject: Pound's radio broadcasts
>
>
>> Dear Pound list members,
>>
>> I am forwarding the following message on behalf of a colleague.  You may
> send responses to me, and I will pass them on to Ben.
>>
>> Burt Hatlen
>>
>>
>> I'll be teaching a graduate seminar on poetry in the 1940s and would like
> to acquire a recording of Ezra Pound broadcasting on shortwave from Italy.
> Are such recordings available? More generally: what archives own copies of
> the tapes? Any and all
>> leads much appreciated.
>>
>> Ben Friedlander
>>
>>