Ilya Wolston was an American citizen who enlisted the U.S. Army in World War II and served as a Russian interpreter. After the war, Wolston became a language teacher and professor. He was libeled in the book "KGB", where it was stated that he was convicted of espionage; he sued. His case went to the U.S. Supreme Court (Wolston v. Readers Digest) and they declared that Wolston was not a public figure and therefore his assertion of libel would stand. He died before the case could be retried in lower courts. While Wolston was also maligned in a book by Boris Morros, Morros' credibility was seriously in doubt and he never provided any proof for many of his assertions.