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...director of Tass, Russia's news agency and principal propaganda organ. Tass not only serves Russian newspapers internally but has a worldwide network of 200 men in 93 countries, including four in Washington, is often accused of using them for other purposes than news gathering. A onetime Tassman (1945-55) who later switched to diplomacy and became Deputy Foreign Minister, Lapin has spent the past two years as ambassador to Red China, but has been absent from his post for months because of Chinese demonstrations against Russia. He replaced Dmitry F. Goryunov, another Brezhnev protege whose future is uncertain...
...accomplished military historian in World War II, Author Draper knows that for this kind of work a man needs access to enemy records. Draper himself-an old New Masses, Daily Worker and Tassman who broke with the Reds at the beginning of World War II-had this knowledge of the enemy built in. Yet he has preserved a stiff objectivity-rare among ex-leftists -which has kept him on the cold course plotted by the Fund for the Republic, which sponsored his study. The book is all the more welcome because, as Draper understates it, "Communists themselves cannot write their...
...Tassman who asked him for the dossiers, explained O'Sullivan, said he wanted them to "circumvent the bad press" in Australia. O'Sullivan insisted that he prepared them only to "assist international relationships," had no idea that they might be used to help the Russians recruit new agents. But there was no doubt in the Communists' mind about O'Sullivan's helpfulness. In secret messages from Moscow, testified Petrov, O'Sullivan was referred to by the Russian code name Zemlyak (i.e., fellow countryman). Furthermore, added Petrov, Rex Chiplin, an Australian reporter who works...
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...
...news, but in filing special intelligence reports or engaging in outright espionage. Examples: ¶Under the cover name of "Martin," Tass "Correspondent" Nicolai Zheivinov was a member of Canada's atomic spy ring, uncovered in 1945. He skipped home to Russia to avoid arrest. ¶In Tokyo, Tassman Evgeny Egorov has never been known to turn in a story for clearance by U.N. censors; he is presumed to send all of his material either by diplomatic pouch or by radio code from the Russian Embassy. ¶In Teheran, Tass's representative has never been seen to visit Radio...