A native of Sydney , Sayle moved to London in 1952 . He was a foreign correspondent for '' The Sunday Times '' in the late 1960s and early 1970s . During his long career he covered wars in Vietnam , Pakistan and the Middle East , accompanied an expedition on its climb of Mount Everest , sailed solo across the Atlantic Ocean , was the first reporter to interview double agent Kim Philby after his defection to Russia , and trekked through the Bolivian jungle in search for Che Guevara . He resigned from '' The Sunday Times '' in 1972 after the newspaper refused to publish an investigative piece he wrote about the Bloody Sunday shootings of 26 unarmed protesters in Northern Ireland
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Murray Sayle