 His first official employment was with the CBS News Moscow bureau, where, as his own account has it, he gave his boss, Daniel Schorr, a tip, allegedly based on an article in that reported the cancellation of a Hungarian ballet trip to Moscow, about the imminent Soviet invasion of Hungary in November 1956.His next job was as an assistant to Edmund Stevens of "Look" magazine.Louis wrote for "The Evening News" until 1980, and then for the "Sunday Express".