David James Mossman (10 September 1926 – 5 April 1971) was a British journalist, broadcaster, TV reporter, film-maker, interviewer and former MI6 agent.
He once verbally attacked then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson live on air, over his support of US President Lyndon Johnson over the Vietnam War.
Eventually, he was reassigned to presenting regular arts slot by the BBC because of the controversy around his interviewing style.
As a high-profile news reporter but closeted gay man in an era where homosexuality was outlawed, by the mid-1960s Mossman fell in love with Canadian Louis Hanssen.
[4] On 14 February 2007, The Reporter, a play by Nicholas Wright based on his book and directed by Richard Eyre, premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London.