My friend Karl Meyer, who has died aged 91, was a journalist for the
Washington Post and the
New York Times from the 1950s until the late 90s.
An adventurous reporter, he covered the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion there, about which he wrote a book, The Cuban Invasion: The Chronicle of a Disaster (1962), with a fellow journalist, Tad Szulc.