TASS Expands Into American Market 5

A long time favorite hoax of mine, this 1982 alleged purchase of a couple of small Connecticut weeklies by TASS, the official Soviet news organ, featured a story by John Reed in which it was revealed that the two former publishers had died in simutaneous hunting accidents after shooting each other in the back of the head with AK-47s. Like all great hoaxes, it had more than its share of believers, some of whom no doubt harbor doubts about the two paper's loyalty to America to this very day.