TASS SAYS U.S. SPIES AT U.N.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201110027-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 9, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
9 March 1986
Tass Says U.S.
Spies at U.N.
Charge Is Reaction
To Soviet Staff Cut
Reuter
MOSCOW, March 8-The Soviet
news agency Tass, reacting angrily
to the U.S. demand for staff cuts at
the Soviet missions to the United
Nations in New York, accused the
Americans today of using the world
body for spying.
"The United States intensively
exploits the fact that the United
Nations headquarters is located in
New York for espionage purposes,"
Tass said.
Tass said earlier that Washing-
ton, seeking to force changes in
U.N. policy to suit its interests, had
used "raw pressure and blackmail"
and taken "one hostile action after
another" against Communist and
developing countries.
The State Department an-
nounced yesterday that the staff of
275 diplomats at the Soviet mission
must be reduced to 170 in four
stages by 1988 and that the mis-
sions of the two Soviet republics
with separate U.N. membership,
Byelorussia and the Ukraine, would
be limited to 10 diplomats each.
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