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...Soviet crews arrived in France festooned with "secret" instruments (i.e., stopwatches, portable altimeters, audio-timers that would sound a warning buzz in time to pull the ripcord, safety devices for opening chutes automatically at minimum altitude). They brought along three political tutors: an army colonel, an interpreter and a Tass correspondent. They haggled endlessly over procedure, spent two hours on the ground discussing a maneuver in the air. But they put on an exhibition of fine precision jumping that won them the championship with ease. In second place: the Czechs. Third: the French defending champions. Among the also-rans: Switzerland...
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...
Double Life. For Tassmen the Australian operation was routine, but for Western newsmen it was added proof of the fact that Tass correspondents are Red agents rather than legitimate reporters. In The Netherlands and Canada, Tass correspondents have actually been found spying (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953). All Tass correspondents, in every country of the world, Petrov testified, act as MVD agents...
...Tass representative was not a permanent MVD worker," he added, "he was invariably called in to do that work." Petrov explained that only the secret police chief in each country knows what actual rank each Tass correspondent holds. Petrov's description of Tassmen's MVD mission: to pass themselves off as working newspapermen while they gather information for the Russian secret police...
...mishandling began at the start. Though the film, shot 17 months ago, had long since been cleared for security, foreign newsmen were banned from the briefing. When protests poured in, particularly from British and Canadian correspondents, the decision was reversed. (Russia's Tass did not even bother to send a man to the briefing, and" no other Iron Curtain newsmen were spotted...