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Salmon & Secrets. In 1946 a Communist friend turned him over to a Tass correspondent named Anisimov, who plied him with champagne at his home, treated him to cozy téte-à-téte dinners of jellied Volga fish, Siberian smoked salmon, choice vodka, potent Swedish export beer and voluble persuasion. After three years of this, Ernest was considered ready for espionage...
...will permit me." Douglas spread his his hands in frustration, then dropped his head on his folded arms as O'Mahoney droned on: "If I were to keep silent, I can imagine the words of the Senator from Illinois being read tomorrow morning and by some representative of Tass. being broadcast behind the Iron Curtain misinterpreting his meaning to indicate a lack of faith among American members of Congress in the men who work, who fight, and who die for them...
...editors demanded that the Washington correspondents' Standing Committee bar all Tassmen from the Capitol press galleries. In the Senate, Maryland's Herbert O'Conor went much further. He offered a resolution not only to bar Tass from the galleries, but to deport all non-American Tass representatives...
...Standing Committee made a halfhearted answer: it decided to issue no credentials to any new Tassmen in the future. But it shied away from barring Tass representatives already on the job, because it was afraid it might be construed as a limitation of press freedom...
Special Passports. No newsman who has watched the workings of Tass's representatives around the globe would have much trouble defining their primary job. Tassmen do not travel as newsmen, but on special passports, enter the U.S. and other countries on special visas given only to foreign government officials. British courts have officially ruled that Tassmen have diplomatic immunity, since Tass is an agency of the Soviet state. Time after time, Tassmen have shown that they are not primarily interested in news, but in filing special intelligence reports or engaging in outright espionage. Examples: ¶Under the cover name...