In the ‘Mission Finland – Cold War Cultural Diplomacy at the Crossroads of East and West’ project my role is to focus on American and British cultural diplomacy in Finland, in particular during the latter decades of the Cold War. Topics under closer examination include films, visiting artists, language teaching and educational and cultural exchange programmes, as well as cultural promotion through various media channels. Western activities in Finland were to a considerable extent determined by Finland’s geopolitical position, and one of my objectives is to explore how the period of so-called Finlandisation and, later, the end of the Cold War shaped the contents and methods of implementation of the aforementioned cultural programmes.