Adrian Taylor (producer) He also produced pieces for CNBC, ESPN and Fox News during his career. Clem Taylor spent nearly twenty years with CBS News. He worked as a CBS producer based in Washington D.C., Dallas, and New York City. He was assigned as a producer based in the White House during the Reagan administration during the 1980s. Taylor covered the Reykjavík Summit between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Iceland in 1986. In the late 1990s, he was named a senior producer of "The Early Show" during the late 1990s. Taylor spent his last four years at CBS News as a producer
1985: The Year of the Spy tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union at a crucial point in the Cold War; Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power as Soviet general secretary in the same year. These high-publicity cases added to the American public's suspicion of the Soviets at a time when the Soviet Union was transitioning into new leadership and reforms under Gorbachev. Even Gorbachev's meeting with President Ronald Reagan at the November Geneva Summit did little to reduce uncertainty as to the future of U.S.-Soviet relations. The arrest of so many foreign spies working within the United States Intelligence Community sparked two demands among