Louis reported that the Soviet Union might be considering a preventive nuclear attack against China as well as the information about the Moscow metro bombing of 1977 ; he ascribed the latter to dissidents , which gave the authorities a pretext for a harsh crackdown . In 1968 , a few months before the publication of '' Twenty Letters to a Friend '' by Joseph Stalin 's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva ( who had defected two years prior ) , Louis brought out the KGB 's unauthorized copy in Germany to damp the sensation . He was instrumental in smuggling both Khrushchev 's memoirs and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's '' Cancer Ward '' to the West , although in the latter case he is believed to have had the aim of compromising the writer at home
Moscow metro bombing of 1977
1977 Moscow bombings
Victor Louis (journalist)