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...year-old correspondent listened impassively and scribbled notes. He wore a conservative suit, glasses and a brooding look; he might have been the correspondent for a Midwestern daily. But Larry Todd is reporting for no corn-belt readers. He is senior correspondent of the official Russian news agency Tass in Washington, D.C., and registered as such with the Department of Justice...
...Nottawa, Mich., but there the plainness ends. Swayed by Edward Bellamy's Equality and a speech by Eugene V. Debs, young Todd joined the Socialist Party in 1904. At 29, he was a Washington correspondent, served United Press, International News Service and Federated Press in turn. He joined Tass in 1923 as a stringer, became a full-time Tassman in 1933. Todd insists he is not a Communist Party member, but makes clear his belief that Russia can do no wrong...
...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...
Despite his own pro-Russian opinions, Todd sends dispatches to Tass headquarters in New York (for relay to Moscow) that are as factual as any Associated Press report; the Russian dressing is added later. At least once a day, he also mails a fat envelope to Tass. Todd, who has visited Russia three times but cannot read Russian, professes not to know which of his stories are printed in Pravda and other Soviet newspapers, or what changes are made...
Last week in Washington, there was agitation against Propagandists Todd and Hall, and for Propagandists Sitrick and McGroarty. Movie Star Harold (The Best Years of Our Lives) Russell, national commander of Amvets, called for ousting the Tass and Worker representatives from the press galleries. Many Washington newsmen disagreed: they thought this might infringe upon freedom of the press, might also provoke Soviet reprisals against the few U.S. correspondents still in Moscow (TIME, Nov. 7). As for the Voice of America, a committee of Senate periodicals (magazine) correspondents proposed relaxing the rules: let them sit in the diplomatic gallery and take...