Word: zheivinov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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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