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million in 1976. Figures for 1978 and 1979 were not available at the time of writing. Administration and fund-raising costs hovered around 830 to 35 percent. In 1977 UE increased its net worth by $792,958 to a total net worth of $3,795,909. It therefore needs to find more programs to spend its growing surplus. 33. Voice of the Martyrs, 11/78. Income in 1975 was 4.1 million; in 1976 it was 5.2 million with 38 percent and 35 percent respectively spent on administration, postage, freight, and publicity. 84. February 14, 1979. 85. E.g., Orlando E. Costas, The Church and its Mission: A Shattering Cri- tique from the Third World (Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1974). 36. UBS Background Paper, September 1977. 87. BV, 1/75, p. 88. 38. Newsline West, June 1978. This is a more factual news service for UE branches. 39. EBPS, December 4, 1978. 40. The Ethics of Smuggling (Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1974), p. 17. 41. Ibid., p. 42. 42. Ibid., p. 43. 48. Ibid., p. 89. 44, “Are Bible Smugglers Deceivers?”’ 1974 Wurmbrand pamphlet. 45, Ibid. 46. Ibid. 7. A number of missions, as in this case, purchase East European currency on the black market and smuggle restricted currency. This was strongly criticized by Paul Hanson of the Lutheran World Federation (EPS, May 18, 1978) 48, Jane Ellis, “Religious Broadcasting into the Soviet Union,” RCL, III, 4-5, 1975, pp. 48-48. This was a provisional study that has led to a number of conferences on religious broadcasting. My analysis is based on papers from such conferences. 49. See his recent Battle for Africa (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1978). 50. Simon, pp. 180-84. 51. Voice of the Martyrs, 1, 2, and 3 for 1979. 52. UE, for example, circulated rather widely a 200-page documentation against Wurmbrand. 53. “West Coast Bible Smugglers: Less Cloak and More Dagger,’ Christianity Today, March 2, 1979, pp. 50-52. The most thorough and balanced coverage of the Assessment of East European Mission Societies 415 story. I am also using documentation supplied by both missions and other personal knowledge of the case. 54. The arrest concerned taking money under false pretenses. Bass agreed to make restitution and the charges were dropped. 55. The joint statement was signed on June 27, 1979, by Myrus Knutson for Jesus to the Communist World, Richard Wurmbrand, Mihai Wurmbrand, L. Joe Bass, Stefan Bankov, and Curtis R. Nims, the latter signing for Underground Evan- gelism, USA. 56. A photocopy of the “Acknowledgement” dated the following day (June 28, 1979) shows that all six men also signed this statement, which appears to conflict with the August 22, 1979 disclaimer by Hans Martin Braun, General Secretary of the International Committee of the Wurmbrand Mission. 57. The Wurmbrand statement was dated August 6, 1979. 58. This is the title of a Keston College quarterly distributed to contributors. 59. Gustav Wingren, “Human Rights: A Theological Analysis,” Ecumenical Rev