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4 unusual facts about Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union


Clandestine HUMINT operational techniques

For example, the Soviet GRU covered some intelligence officers under the TASS news agency, or as part of a trade or technical mission, or even as diplomats.

Ricardo Setaro

He had previously operated a news agency in Buenos Aires which distributed TASS News Agency dispatches.

Shirali Muslimov

The case of Muslimov became known in 1963, when a young photojournalist of TASS, Kalman Kaspiev, went to Barzavu to interview the centenarian.

Whetstone, London

Tass, the Soviet news agency, had a radio monitoring station at The Lodge, 13 Oakleigh Park North, and the British security agencies became aware that it was being used to track its activities.


Soviet pro-Arab propaganda

Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) blamed the attack on 'Israeli Arabs'—this gives the attack legitimacy, presenting a 'partisan' resistance and placing the blame on unknown persons or on Israel itself.


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