Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Commission, Petrov's story and documents did not show any major betrayal of Australian military secrets, but it did imply that a web of fellow travelers had been spun into embarrassingly high corners of the late Labor government. A young ex-reporter named Fergan O'Sullivan confessed before the Royal Commission that he had once written highly personal dossiers on fellow Australian news men at the request of a Russian working for Tass O'Sullivan later had served as Evatt's press secretary...
...show, Como demonstrated why he is the acknowledged TV master of song. Relaxed to the point of bonelessness, he is something of an Ed Sullivan steeped in aplomb, and presents the very picture of ease and graciousness. Como this year will repeat last season's big audience-getter: religious songs. For Catholics, Como sang a musical version of the Act of Contrition; for Protestants, Onward Christian Soldiers; and for Jews, he wore a yarmulke (skull cap) and sang Kol Nidre...
...commission had become interested in O'Sullivan after Vladimir Petrov, a Russian embassy secretary in Canberra, surrendered to Australian authorities and began to talk (TIME, April 26). Petrov, an ex-colonel in the MVD, the Russian secret police, charged that O'Sullivan had been helpful to the MVD in Australia. Last week O'Sullivan's answer took Australian newsmen by surprise...
Helpful Dossiers. O'Sullivan admitted preparing "dossiers" on Australian newsmen and turning them over to a correspondent for Tass, the official Russian news agency and cover-up for Moscow's international agents. The dossier on one reporter said: "[He is] drinking himself to abnormality; probably originally a Protestant, not now practicing, married, promiscuous." On another: "[This reporter] also probably holds security job, drinks, married." The dossiers went to Moscow by diplomatic pouch, said Petrov...
...Tassman who asked him for the dossiers, explained O'Sullivan, said he wanted them to "circumvent the bad press" in Australia. O'Sullivan insisted that he prepared them only to "assist international relationships," had no idea that they might be used to help the Russians recruit new agents. But there was no doubt in the Communists' mind about O'Sullivan's helpfulness. In secret messages from Moscow, testified Petrov, O'Sullivan was referred to by the Russian code name Zemlyak (i.e., fellow countryman). Furthermore, added Petrov, Rex Chiplin, an Australian reporter who works...