Nicholas Daniloff

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Nicholas Daniloff is a journalist who graduated from Harvard University and was most prominent in the 1980s for his work in and about the Soviet Union. He came to international attention when he was arrested by the KGB in 1986 and accused of espionage.

The Reagan administration first took the position that the Soviets had arrested Daniloff without cause, planning to trade him for one or more Soviet spies previously arrested in America. The Soviets then demonstrated that Daniloff did in fact have confidential government documents on him when arrested.

Ultimately, the Reagan administration agreed to an apparent prisoner swap (for Soviet physicist Gennadi Zakharov), and Daniloff came home. Daniloff contended in his later autobiography, Two Lives, One Russia, that he had never held classified documents, and that the KGB had created false information.

Daniloff became an instructor at Northeastern University's School of Journalism and, in 1992, he was named director of the school.

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"Daniloff Named to Head Northeastern Journalism School", Boston Globe, June 20, 1992, p. 24.