October 23, 1945
TASS Digest Distributed to Cde. I.V. Stalin et al, 'Report of a TASS Correspondent in France'
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REPORT OF A TASS CORRESPONDENT IN FRANCE
A TASS correspondent in Paris reports that the France Presse agency has received a secret instruction of the Minister of Information not to distribute foreign policy information favorable to the USSR, and also to give information about the situation in Eastern Europe not from Soviet, but from Anglo-American sources.
Troops have appeared around Paris in places where they were not previously. In particular, units of Le Clerc’s tank division have been deployed in Fontainebleau.
Eight copies printed
1st copy – to Cde. I. V. Stalin
2nd copy – to Cde. V. M. Molotov
3rd copy - to Cde. G. M. Malenkov
4th copy - to Cde. L. P. Beria
5th copy - to Cde. V. N. Merkulov
6th copy - to Cde. A. Ya. Vyshinsky
7th copy - to Cde. V. G. Dekanozov
8th copy - to file
Outgoing Nº 499ss
M. Nº 425
23 October 1945
zp [Handwritten: PR]
Report that the French press has been instructed by the Ministry of Information not to spread any information of foreign policy favorable to the USSR.
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