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John Rettie

Cartmel John Alexander Rettie (November 24, 1925 - January 10, 2009) was a journalist who reported for The Guardian, Reuters, and the BBC World Service for nearly fifty years, covering some of the most critical events of the Cold War from the Soviet Union and Latin America. [1] He was one of a small number of Western journalist who reported directly from Moscow, and is credited as being the first to break the news of Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech to western news outlets.[2]

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1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/20/obituary-john-rettie


John Rettie


Cartmell John Alexander Rettie
Born(1929-10-24)24 October 1929
Died10 January 2009(2009-01-10) (aged 83)
Occupation(s)Journalist, Broadcaster, Newspaper reporter

Cartmell John Alexander Rettie (born November 24, 1925 in Colombo, Ceylon), known as John Rettie was a British newspaper journalist and broadcaster. While working for Reuters in the Soviet capital, Moscow, in 1956, he brought back details of Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech to the Kremlin denouncing the crimes of Stalin[Obituary 1] .


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