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Journalism professor Nicholas Daniloff, a former news magazine and wire service reporter, covered the Cold War for 30 years. In 1986, he was arrested in Moscow and held for 13 days in a KGB prison, accused of espionage. He’s been teaching at Northeastern since 1989. His memoir, “Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent,” came out last year.
