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| writer = [[Yulian Semyonov]]
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| director = [[Vladimir Fokin]]
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| theme_music_composer = [[Eduard Artemyev]]
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
| num_episodes = 10
| producer = [[Pyotr Pashkevich]]
| editor = [[Yelena Zabolotskaya]]
| cinematography = Igor Klebanov
| runtime = 700 minutes
| company = [[Gorky Film Studio]]
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| first_aired = {{Start date|1984|07|30|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1984|08|10|df=y}}
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'''''[[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union|TASS]] Is Authorized to Declare...''''' ({{langx|ru|ТАСС уполномочен заявить...}}, [[Transliteration|translit.]] ''TASS upolnomochen zayavit...'') is a 1984 [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[spy film|spy]] [[miniseries]] directed by [[Vladimir Fokin]]. The series is set in the [[Cold War]] era and portrays a struggle between Soviet and American [[intelligence agency|intelligence agencies]]. It is based on a novel by the same name by [[Yulian Semyonov]] (the author of cult spy series ''[[Seventeen Moments of Spring]]''). ''Seventeen Moments'' star [[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]] played [[KGB]] General Konstantinov, the protagonist of the "TASS..." series.<ref>Taisiya Belousova. [http://www.pressreader.com/russia/sovershenno-sekretno-informatsiya-k-razmyshleniyu/20160701/281513635545032 Козлы отпущения]</ref>

Original film music score was composed by [[Eduard Artemyev]] as a blend of [[progressive rock]] and [[electronic music]].

==Plot ==
''Trianon'' ([[Boris Klyuyev]]), a willing [[Clandestine HUMINT#Defector in place|mole agent]] for the Americans, is providing his [[CIA]] [[agent handling|handlers]] in [[Moscow]] with information on Soviet supplies to the fictional African state of Nagonia which he obtains through his high-positioned expert job. [[KGB]] [[counterintelligence]] painstakingly identifies and neutralizes him. Trianon kills his fiancee who raised suspicions on his double life and then attempts to commit suicide when arrested, but the KGB secures his apprehension and interrogation.

At the same time in Nagonia, Soviet counterintelligence agent ''Slavin'' ([[Yuri Solomin]]) risks his life assisting in identifying''Trianon'' and preventing local [[CIA]] resident ''Glabb'' ([[Vakhtang Kikabidze]]) from staging a [[coup d'etat]] in the country by pro-American General Ogano against ruling progressive president Grisso. Several foreign whistleblowers providing Slavin with information are killed by Glabb's order.

As the result of successful KGB operation, the [[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union|TASS state news agency]] issues a sensational news bulletin exposing the CIA plot.

==Cast==
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* [[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]] as ''KGB General Konstantinov''
* [[Yury Solomin]] as ''Slavin''
* [[Nikolai Zasukhin]] as ''Makarov''
* [[Aleksei Petrenko]] as ''Paul Dick, journalist''
* [[Ivars Kalnins]] as ''Minayev''
* [[Nikolai Mikheyev]] as ''Pavel Savelyevich Ozersky''
* [[Nikolai Skorobogatov]] as ''Arkhipkin''
* [[Mikhail Gluzsky]] as ''Fyodorov''
* [[Irina Alfyorova]] as ''Olga Winter''
* [[Vladlen Davydov]] as ''Yeryomin''
* [[Boris Khimichev]] as ''Michael Welsh''
* [[Georgi Tejkh]] as ''Nelson Grin''
* [[Mikhail Zhigalov]] as ''Paramonov''
* [[Aristarkh Livanov]] as ''Welsh's assistant''
* [[Vladimir Mashchenko]] as ''Shargin''
* [[Zhanna Prokhorenko]] as ''Paramonova''
* [[Vakhtang Kikabidze]] as ''John Glabb, CIA resident to Nagonia''
* [[Eleonora Zubkova]] as ''Pilar, Glabb's mistress''
* [[Bolot Bejshenaliyev]] as ''Lao''
* Vladimir Belousov as ''Tsyzin''
* [[Vatslav Dvorzhetsky]] as ''Professor Winter''
* [[Konstantin Karelskikh]] as ''Luns''
* [[Aleksandr Karin]] as ''KGB officer''
* [[Vadim Andreev]] as ''Dronov, KGB lieutenant''
* [[Boris Klyuyev]] as ''Sergey Dubov (Agent 'Trianon')''
* [[Erwin Knausmüller]] as ''U.S. Ambassador''
* [[Kalifa Konde]] as ''Ogano''
* [[Ermengeld Konovalov]] as ''Stau''
* [[Leonid Kuravlyov]] as ''Zotov''
* [[Marina Levtova]] as ''Olga Vronskaya''
* [[Pavel Makhotin]] as ''Yarantsev''
* [[Heino Mandri]] as ''Lorence, former CIA resident to Nagonia, killed by Glabb''
* [[Mikk Mikiver]] as ''Donald Gee, journalist''
* [[Aleksandr Pashutin]] as ''Gmyrya''
* [[Tatyana Plotnikova]] as ''Niyazmetova''
* [[Viktor Shulgin]] as ''Vogulyov''
* [[Eduard Martsevich]] as ''Dmitry Stepanov, a Soviet journalist''
* [[Lyudmila Solodenko]] as ''Doctor''
* [[Lembit Ulfsak]] as ''Schleyer''
* [[Valentina Titova]] as ''Potapenko''
* [[Olga Volkova (actress)|Olga Volkova]] as ''Emma Schanz, previous Glabb's wife''
* [[Leonid Yarmolnik]] as ''Grechayev''
* [[Georgi Yumatov]] as ''Ivan Belyu''
* [[Boris Bystrov]] as ''Agafonov, a KGB major, the investigator''
* [[Nadezhda Babkina]] as ''cameo''
* Stunts by [[Oleg Fedulov]]
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== See also ==
* [[Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0086813}}

[[Category:1984 television films]]
[[Category:1984 films]]
[[Category:Soviet television films]]
[[Category:Cold War spy films]]
[[Category:1980s Soviet films]]
[[Category:1980s Russian-language films]]
[[Category:Gorky Film Studio films]]
[[Category:Soviet television miniseries]]
[[Category:Films scored by Eduard Artemyev]]
[[Category:Films set in Moscow]]
[[Category:Films set in Africa]]
[[Category:1980s Soviet television series]]
[[Category:1980s spy films]]
[[Category:1980s television miniseries]]
[[Category:Soviet spy television series]]
[[Category:Russian spy television series]]

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