Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Correspondents for Tass, the official Russian news agency, often behave more like Communist agents than reporters. But, though some U.S. newsmen suspect Tassmen, many of whom have little journalistic training, of being spies, they are rarely caught at it. (In Canada, one Tassman skipped home in 1945, just before he was named as a member of the Canadian spy ring.) Last week in The Netherlands, a Tassman was jailed on espionage charges...
...Tass correspondent in The Hague, Leo C. Pisarev, 37, was different from other foreign correspondents. He lived with two Russian Embassy families, spent much of his time cultivating minor government officials and took his "contacts" to the best-restaurants. Recently, he began concentrating his entertaining on a low-salaried government employee. Pisa-rev's questions about Dutch classified information were so insistent that the government man went to The Netherlands' security police. From then on, the Dutch employee regularly reported Pisarev's questions to them...
...Salvador, got their figures by culling and comparing a mass of sources, including Russian newspapers. Two years ago, for instance, Russia created a stir by announcing that all Japanese and German P.W.s had been sent home, except for "a few thousand" awaiting trial for war crimes. At that time, Tass put the number of Germans repatriated at just over 1,000,000. Five years earlier, the Russians had admitted taking more than 3,000,000 German prisoners. That left close to 2,000,000 still captive or dead in Russian hands. Some 370,000 Japanese are similarly lost...
...action-packed years as A.F.L. representative in Europe, Irving Brown has become one of the Americans that Communists know best-and hate most. In Belgium Communists call him "the grey eminence of the yellow international," in Italy "Scarface, the notorious American fascist racketeer," in Prague "the chief union splitter." Tass has accused him of everything from forging Cominform documents to shipping German virgins to Africa "to amuse young Americans."* Last week Brown was in Washington reporting to A.F.L. leaders on how he had earned such Red epithets...
...deal," first trumpeted in Moscow's Trud and later echoed by Tass, was the 3-3 ice-hockey tie between the U.S. and Canada. The result, as it happened, assured Canada the Olympic title, moved the U.S. to second place (up from fourth) and forced Czechoslovakia into a third-place play-off-which it lost to Sweden. The Russians, looking after Little Brother Czechoslovakia, figured the tie was no mere accident. In effect, they were crying that ugly three-letter word all too familiar to Western sport fans...