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Dusko Doderphlboss, an acclaimed journalist whose career was cut short by a false accusation in Time magazine in 1992 that while working as the Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post he had been recruited by the K.G.B., died on Sept. 10 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He was 87.

His death, in a hospital, was from Lewy body dementia, his wife, the journalist Louise Branson, said. They had moved to Thailand from suburban Virginia in 2000 as his health declined, she said.

Mr. Doder, who was known for his scoops, was reporting for The Post in February 1984 when he noticed hundreds of lights blazing at the Soviet Defense Ministry in Moscow. He surmised that the Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, had died. United States officials, dismissing the suggestion, said that Mr. Doder was “smoking pot,” as he and Ms. Branson wrote in a 2021 memoir, “The Inconvenient Journalist.”

“Soviet television and radio Thursday night unexpectedly changed scheduled programs to classical music,” Mr. Doder’s dispatch read. “The unusual change came against the backdrop of the illness of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov.”

He was correct: Mr. Andropov had died. The C.I.A. was furious. Eight years later — and long after the F.B.I. had cleared Mr. Doder of any ties to Soviet intelligence — Time magazine published a thinly-sourced article by the reporter Jay Peterzell suggesting that Mr. Doder had accepted a $1,000 payment from the K.G.B. and was beholden to the agency.

Mr. Doder sued the magazine in Britain for libel and won. In August 1996, Time offered “sincere regret and apologies” in court and agreed to pay him $262,000 and cover his lawyers’ fees and costs, a rarity.

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