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...Tassmen have diplomatic immunity, since Tass is an agency of the Soviet state. Time after time, Tassmen have shown that they are not primarily interested in 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...
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...
Well aware that there government may be others like Zheivinov, government officials in world capitals sometimes bar Tassmen from their off-the-record press conferences. One American undersecretary gave reporters some confidential stuff at 11 a.m. Before 1 p.m. the Russian Ambassador-keeping a date, casually questioned him about...
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