"IVAN THE TERRIBLE"
Mystery Announcer a Russian
(Rec. 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 27. The mystery voice which has been persistently interrupting the German news broadcasts is that of a Russian, whom the London newspapers have nicknamed "Ivan the Terrible." It is believed that the Russian is operating from a giant transmitter 12 miles from Moscow. He wears headphones and tunes in to the big Deutschlandsender 'station of Berlin, and speaks into a micro- < phone at the moment he gams an . opportunity to intervene. Last night Ivan reduced the news and music programmes from the Berlin station to utter chaos. At the end of the broadcast the announcer said: "You will hear from us tomorrow." Ivan interjected: "You'll hear from me also." any attempts to hinder normal trade relations between the Soviet and the United States, via the Far Eastern Soviet ports, otherwise than as an act unfriendly to the* Soviet. "At the same time the Soviet confirms that the goods which the Soviet purchased in the United States are destined first for the satisfaction of the Soviet's growing needs in the west, in connection with a defensive war, as well as for the agricultural | needs of the Soviet in the Far East."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1941, Page 9
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202"IVAN THE TERRIBLE" Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1941, Page 9
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