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MILESTONES, Page 29
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.