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Squat, rumpled Mikhail Fedorov, 32, boss of the four-man Washington staff of Russia's Tass, is an aeronautical engineer, and worked at his profession in the U.S.S.R. When he came to Washington three years ago, Fedorov insisted that he also had some training with Tass in Moscow. But most Washington newsmen have come to the conclusion that he knows little of the newspaper business, though they concede that his engineering training is handy for the kind of intelligence reports done by Tass for Russian officials...
Last week Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and executive editor of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal, raised a question: Just what is Fedorov up to in Washington...
...also a way of telling the Russians what was what. When Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and Washington newsmen were discussing the U.S. decision to draw a defense line in front of Formosa, Japan and the Philippines, Johnson looked around and asked: "Is the Tass man here?" Mikhail ("Mike") Fedorov of Russia's Tass news agency quickly turned and walked away, shaking his lowered head in evident embarrassment. "He heard what you said," a newsman told the Secretary. Replied Johnson: "That's all right. I wanted him to hear that we had drawn the line. That...
...Wavering. Long Moscow's only correspondent in Washington, Todd now shares the load with Mikhail Fedorov, 31, Tass's Ivan-come-lately Washington bureau chief (TIME, Nov. 21), who covers the White House, the Pentagon, Treasury and other agencies, and with Pittsburgh-born Jean Montgomery,*fortyish, who reports for Tass from Capitol Hill. To newsmen who wonder why Todd works for Russia, Todd has a carefully double-negative reply: he would not be working for the Russians if he did not believe they are for a peaceful world...
...still an undeviating party liner, had a new and less imposing title: senior correspondent. Moscow had decided that the Tass bureau in Washington, like its offices in other world capitals, should be headed by a citizen of the U.S.S.R. Todd's successor: short, curly-haired Mikhail Fedorov, a Russian-born aircraft worker who joined Tass after...