 As he would have news nobody else had, occasionally he made world headlines.As a journalist and a source of information for other foreign correspondents in the USSR, he was considered to purvey the western world with information that the Soviet régime would consider interesting to deliver, without committing itself to it.His first sensational journalistic scoop was breaking the news through "The Evening News"—albeit cautiously worded—about the imminent ouster of Krushchev in October 1964.