FALSE: (Reuters News Service) <--Icelandic officials explained later--> ([so the reporter wasn't actually there and no eye witness so why should we believe a false report relayed “later” by “Icelandic officials” seeking to confuse readers of U.S. newspapers?]) that Fischer had left the board because he said he was disturbed by the sound and sight of a television camera poking through the back hall of the stage. ([Icelandic officials make no mention of the man at the roof? Peculiar because … this is not what Golombek reports. Golombek describes a VERY different scenrio with a particularly disruptive man with a camera, AT THE ROOF of the building, police were called to remove him. Why do reporters have so many different stories about the number of “cameras”, the location of the cameras, and most important, nearly every next-day report obfuscates that it's not actually a camera but the MAN operating the device hired by the Soviet Union, to DISTURB Fischer and win a game by default.])
He stormed off to complain to the chief arbiter, grandmaster Lothar Schmidt, and did not return until the camera had been withdrawn.
Fischer's chief administrative aide, Fred Cramer, said afterward that the man holding the rights to television coverage of the event, American Chester Fox, “will sue me for half a million dollars.”
TRUE: “Then came a dramatic suspension of play. Fischer observed that a cameraman was training a camera on him from the roof. He protested and said he would not resume play until the camera was removed. For 32 minutes the game stood in abeyance, and in the interim, Fischer's clock was going. However, he had plenty of time. Fred Kramer, vice-president of the American Zone of the World Chess Federation, called in the police and the cameraman was ordered away.
<--When play was resumed, Fischer's position went downhill rapidly--> until he reached a point, where he was unable to move without material loss.” - Harry Golombek, 07/13/1972 who was present as an observer.
Actually Fox goes all out, harassing Fischer with a 3.3 million dollar lawsuit, to guarantee he stays out of professional chess circles. “Chess” really must be a “big propaganda vehicle” with the Russian government, just as Fischer said it is. He knew they'd find a way to bury the match. Realistic, truthful reports can't even get outside of Iceland with all this Soviet control of the press!