Scandinavian monitoring services report that the Soviet Union used an especially heavy barrage to try and jam Kol Israel broadcasts in Yiddish and Russian during the Passover holidays. New Soviet jamming stations were apparently used in an attempt to totally black out Israeli broadcasts to northern Europe. Last week the Soviet news agency, Tass, accused Israel of broadcasting anti-Soviet propaganda in its foreign language programs.
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