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...Washington Tass correspondents are not invited to Cabinet officers' background sessions, but do attend full-dress press conferences, including those held by President Eisenhower...
Among the 750 Washington reporters who hold White House press cards, two are correspondents for the Russian official news agency, Tass, and one is a correspondent for Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker. Three weeks ago, to illustrate an article titled "Where Russians Can Go in the U.S.," weekly U.S. News & World Report printed an almost full-sized picture of the White House card along with the cards for the congressional press galleries, the State Department and the White House Correspondents Association. * Last week presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that reproduction of the cards in the magazine...
...Indeed, TASS, the Soviet news agency, has capitalized on the State Department's refusal to grant the visas, and the Communist-controlled International Union of Students has used the story to woo students from neutral nations into its organization. But the State Department can easily refute this propaganda by granting entrance visas to the Soviet editors. The well-chaperoned visitors surely could discover no defense secrets from student newspapers and student councils, and the trip would increase U.S. prestige...
...newsman pointed out that Ladejinsky's articles were scholarly studies exposing Soviet failures, not violent anti-Communist tirades. "They were anti-Communist enough for Tass [the Soviet news agency] to attack them," snapped Cassity quickly. "Those anti-Communist articles alone would have been enough to bother...
...fellow travelers had been spun into embarrassingly high corners of the late Labor government. A young ex-reporter named Fergan O'Sullivan confessed before the Royal Commission that he had once written highly personal dossiers on fellow Australian news men at the request of a Russian working for Tass O'Sullivan later had served as Evatt's press secretary...