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- DIED. Victor Louis, 64, shadowy Russian journalist who served
- asa conduit for the Communist Party and the kgb to the West
- during the cold war; of a heart attack; in London. Born Vitaly
- Yevgenyevich Lui, he worked as a correspondent for the London
- Evening News for 29 years, often using his Kremlin ties to
- scoop the rest of the world; he knew before Western reporters
- that Nikita Khrushchev had been ousted as the Soviet leader.
- Though Louis denied spreading kgb disinformation abroad, some
- Western journalists were convinced otherwise. "Why do you people
- always call me a colonel in the kgb?" he once asked British
- writer Ronald Payne. "Goodness, have you been promoted to
- general at last, Victor?" replied Payne.
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