The World - News from Oct. 13, 1986

Reporter Nicholas Daniloff was used by the CIA in Moscow in an attempt to get in touch with a potential intelligence source, the Washington Post said. In a commentary, former Moscow correspondent Dusko Doder said the U.S. News & World Report journalist told him he met a purported priest, “Father Roman,” who described himself as a dissident and gave him a letter for the CIA. Daniloff passed on the letter and was questioned about the priest by the CIA station chief in Moscow. When arrested by the KGB on espionage charges, he was shown a CIA letter addressed to the priest and mentioning Daniloff’s name, Doder wrote. Daniloff told reporters in Reykjavik, Iceland, that if he was used by the CIA, it was without his knowledge.