Robert Reguly,newsman who tracked down Gerta Munsinger, dead at 80

Robert Reguly, the journalist who tracked down the mysterious woman at the centre of Canada's most notorious political sex scandal, has died. He was 80. Reguly died Feb. 24 at his home in Toronto after a lengthy battle with heart disease, a published death notice reported Tuesday. The veteran journalist, born in Thunder Bay, Ont., earned a national reputation as a hard-hitting investigative reporter with the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun. During his years at the Star, Reguly's name became associated with in-depth political coverage, including the Gerda Munsinger (pictured) affair of 1966, one of the country's most controversial scandals. Reguly's exclusive interviews with Munsinger, a German immigrant and alleged Soviet spy who admitted to sexual liaisons with members of John Diefenbaker's Conservative government, won him the first of three National Newspaper Awards he would acquire during his career.