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Nobody believes Tass's excess file is wasted. Being a Government agency, Tass serves the Kremlin as much as it does the press; and the Kremlin's vast intake can move quickly and cheaply by press rates, Tassmen get to see a lot of things Russian diplomats might...
...rebuilding the agency fell in 1921 to a dynamic, Polish-born Old Bolshevik named Jacob Doletsky. Doletsky worked out news-exchange deals with A.P Boss Kent Cooper and U.P. President Karl Bickel. (A.P. and U.P. give Tass their own U.S. news reports in return for Tass coverage of Russia...
...Doletsky and his head staffers were suddenly purged as "Trotskyist bandits." Since June 1943 the "Chief Responsible Leader" of Tass has been one Nikolai Palgunov...
Double Duty. Tassmen are expected to learn the language of the country where they work, ordinarily go out for three years at a time. In London, bespectacled Buddha-like Tass Chief Alexander Sverlov has a staff of 25 putting out the Soviet Monitor, an English-language paper that is free for all who want it. In Vienna where its news and pictures are also free Tassmen have been a little piqued because Austrian editors prefer to pay for fresher A.P., U.P. or Reuter news...
During the war, some Tass correspondents in France, Italy and Africa never cabled a line; they wore Red Army uniforms, were good mixers, busily gathered military intelligence. And in Ottawa there was Nikolai Zheivinov, who lasted until last September- shortly after Embassy Lode Clerk Igor Gouzenko tattled to the police about the spy ring. Then Zheivinov quietly returned to Russia. Canadian officials found he was hip-deep in espionage, and a member of the NKVD...