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Nicholas Daniloff
Nicholas Daniloff (born December 30, 1934) is an American journalist who graduated from Harvard University and was most prominent in the 1980s for his reporting on the Soviet Union. He came to wider international attention on September 2, 1986, when he was arrested in Moscow by the KGB and accused of espionage.
The Reagan administration took the position that the Soviets had arrested Daniloff without cause, in retaliation for the arrest three days earlier of Gennadi Zakharov, an employee of the Soviet UN Mission. The Soviets
in the Pentagon", a book about Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The book was based on Trewhitt's experiences covering the United States Department of Defense for "Newsweek" in 1965. He was a panel journalist at two presidential debates: the Ford-Carter debate in 1976 and the Reagan-Mondale debate of 1984. In the 1980s, he worked as the deputy managing editor for international affairs at "U.S. News & World Report", in which capacity he defended the magazine's correspondent Nicholas Daniloff after Daniloff was arrested in