SECRET SERVICE AMERICAINS CONFIRMS THE EXISTENCE OF A TUNNEL UNDER THE
EMBASSY OF RUSSIA








WASHINGTON, March 5.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Nikolai Vlassov).
Collaborators, in function and has the retirement, of the secret
service of the United States have confirms during a Sunday emission of
the chains of television CNN, the existence of a tunnel which had ete
hollow under the Russian diplomatic representation has Washington has
ends of listening.  It had ete built has the time of the Sovietique
Union with an aim of intercepting information secretes.  Sources
within against-espionage americain have advertisement that the tunnel
hollow under the embassy had ete truffle of instruments and of
apparatuses use in electronic espionage.

The existence of this tunnel has practically ete revelee week
derniere.  Indeed, the enqueteurs working on the business of the agent
of the FBI (Federal Office of Investigation) Robert Hanssen, arrete
for espionage with the profit of Moscow, supposed that it had been
able to provide corresponding information.  In the documents provided
to the court by the FBI it east indicates that in its Hanssen activity
had " torpedo in particular a whole technical program of a value, of a
coOet and of an importance considerable for the government of the
United States ".

For the moment, Moscow does not have reagi yet officially has this
information published in the press.  It is remarkable however that
Washington, which lately shows cynically and openly Russia to deliver
itself has operations of espionage has the regard of the United
States, did not balk has to take similar measures with respect to
Russia, as attest it the facts which have just been reveles has the
opinion.