A Foreign Ministry spokesman rejected today a charge published by Trud, a Moscow daily newspaper, that an Israeli diplomat had distributed “anti-Soviet propaganda material” from the Israel Embassy in Moscow.
The spokesman said that the Israeli named by Trud, Yaakov Kalman, was actually the Embassy’s archivist and that the most that could have happened was that on request he supplied material about Israel.
The spokesman stressed pointedly that no one hindered the Soviet Embassy from providing information about the Soviet Union to Israelis requesting it. Trud had carried intensive anti-Israel propaganda in recent months.
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