 Millar was hired by Reuters in 1976 and worked in London and Brussels before being sent from Fleet Street to East Berlin by the news agency, where in the early 1980s he was the only non-German correspondent.Millar also reported on the Solidarity movement in Poland before moving to Warsaw and then Moscow.He joined "The Daily Telegraph" before in 1985 moving to the "Sunday Telegraph", whose editor Peregrine Worsthorne agreed to Millar's suggestion to give him the role of Central Europe Correspondent