Bill Cole (television journalist and producer)

In 1968 Bill Cole moved with his family to Moscow to work as a foreign correspondent for CBS News.^[2] During his time there, he conducted secret interviews with Vladimir Bukovsky, Andrei Amalrik, and Pyotr Yakir, which were then smuggled out of the country and aired in 1970 in a CBS News special report, "Voices from the Soviet Underground."^[3][2][4]

In 1970, Cole was asked to leave the Soviet Union with no reason given.^[5][1]

In 1973, Cole was featured in the Soviet propaganda film denouncing Western journalists titled "Pautina."^[2][6]