Mikhail Sagatelyan

Mikhail R. Sagatelyan (born 1927), a Russian journalist and graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations,^[1] was head of the TASS news agency's America bureau from 1959 into the early 1960s, making him an important conduit of information between the United States and the Soviet Union during that period of the Cold War.^[2] At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, he was ejected from a State Department press briefing.^[3] The Pentagon Papers indicate that in 1965 an attempt at informal discussions about the situation in Vietnam took place with Sagatelyan and former White House press secretary Pierre Salinger as go-betweens.^[4] He subsequently worked for Izvestia.^[5]

His theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination as a right-wing plot to prolong the Cold War was published in English in the summer 1971 issue of Sputnik Monthly Digest under the title "Dallas: Who? How? Why?".^[6]

References

1. ^ William H. Gass, "East vs. West in Lithuania: Rising Tempers at a Writers' Meeting", New York Times, Feb. 2, 1986.
2. ^ Priscilla Johnson, "Soviet Newsmen Close-Knit Group on Khrushchev Tour", Toledo Blade, 26 September 1959.
3. ^ "Russian Ejected from Briefing", The Bulletin, 23 October 1962.
4. ^ Pentagon Papers Reveal Soviet Role as Viet Middlemen, The Palm Beach Post, 28 June 1972.
5. ^ Leo Gruliow, "Is Moscow Gently Lowering Its News Barriers?", Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 5, 1973.
6. ^ David R. Wrone, "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: An Annotated Bibliography", Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Autumn, 1972), p. 30.

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