TASS After 1971, TASS was elevated to the status of State Committee at the Government of the Soviet Union. The agency was frequently used as a front organization by the Soviet intelligence agencies, such as the NKVD (later KGB) and Main Intelligence Directorate, with TASS employees serving as informants. In 1959, Alexander Alexeyev was dispatched to Cuba on a fact-finding mission, ostensibly working for TASS. In January 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a Presidential Decree signed by Boris Yeltsin re-defined status of TASS and renamed it the "Information Telegraph Agency of Russia". In May 1994 The Russian Government
Vietnam News Agency as the tradition day of the VNA. Before 1945, news agencies were unavailable in Vietnam, leaving official news about the country at the hands of the French and other western agencies. Therefore, the VNA is the first news agency to be founded in Vietnam. The Liberation News Agency - the official news organisation run by the Southern National Liberation Front for South Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam was established on 12 October 1960. Following the reunification of the country, the Liberation News Agency merged with the VNTTX. On 12 May 1977, a resolution