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...Soviet counterpart is Leonid Zamyatin, chief of the Central Committee's International Information Department. He is a former director of TASS who operates under the guidance of the party's longtime chief ideologist, Mikhail Suslov. TASS serves as the backbone of Soviet propaganda. The bluntness of TASS's bias often works against it. For example, the Soviets in 1963 provided, free of charge, equipment for receiving TASS bulletins to the fledgling Kenyan news agency. The Kenyans, however, soon started using the equipment to receive Britain's Reuters wire service as well. A former Kenyan journalist says...
Neither of the two parties challenged the document's authenticity; but each denied having leaked it. In Moscow, Party Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin told reporters that "your best sources would be in Rome." Ital ian Communist Party officials were equally evasive, hinting that the Kremlin might have leaked the letter to discredit Berlinguer in the eyes of hard-line party members. Panorama Journalist Carlo Rossella added to the mys tery, explaining that he had been given a translation of the letter at a surreptitious meeting in a Milan restaurant. But he refused to identify the informant...
Hear This, Zamyatin...
...have some answers for Soviet Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin and his critique of American-Soviet relations [Dec. 8]. If he wants peace, then stop butchering Afghans. If he wants self-determination, then leave Poland alone. If he wants human dignity, then allow freedom of speech. If he wants détente, then act responsibly and cease helping terrorists. Talk is cheap. Actions show that the Soviet government is a brutal, repressive warmonger...
According to Brezhnev's principal spokesman on the trip, Leonid Zamyatin, the Soviet President had explicitly told Gandhi that Moscow's troops would remain in Afghanistan "until the end." In a statement written for TIME (Dec. 8), Zamyatin argued that the Soviet army had been dispatched to Afghanistan solely to rescue the country from "interference" by the U.S. and its allies...