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
İhlas News Agency İhlas News Agency Ihlas News Agency, Ihlas Haber Ajansı (IHA) is a Turkish news agency which was founded in 1993, and headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. IHA is one of the leading video news agencies in the world. According to a BBC survey, IHA is the third biggest news agency worldwide based on criteria such as rapid access to international news, capacity of live footage and the number of technical facilities in foreign countries. It is part of the Turkish conglomerate İhlas Holding. It has 12 studios worldwide, including Berlin, Khartoum, London and Washington. Each day it processes an average of