Robert C. Toth, a veteran Los Angeles Times reporter and foreign correspondent who in 1977 was arrested by KGB on trumped-up spying charges and questioned for days in a Moscow prison, has died at his home in Maryland. He was 93.
Robert C. Toth, a veteran Los Angeles Times reporter and foreign correspondent who was swept into the headlines when he was arrested and interrogated for days by KGB agents on trumped-up espionage charges, has died at his home in Maryland.
“Bob Toth was not only a gifted journalist, but a serious scholar as well,” said Doyle McManus, a Washington columnist for The Times who worked with Toth. “He was proudest not of his Moscow reporting, but of an important 1990 article on U.S. nuclear strategy he coauthored for International Security, a professional journal published by MIT.
“It ended on a ludicrous note” in later wrote in a first-person account of his ordeal. He said a member of the Soviet news agency Tass asked if he’d been treated fairly and wondered whether he would someday enjoy returning to the country.
Toth enlisted in the Marine Corps. after World War II ended and got out of Throop. He later attended Washington University in St. Louis on the GI Bill and then earned a master’s degree at Columbia, were he studied journalism. He landed at the Providence Journal as a general assignment reporter and then moved to the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times’ Washington bureau. He was hired by the Los Angeles Times in 1963.
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