 Some critics have questioned the original source of the story that Vladimir Ilyushin was the real first man in space. Since 1961, almost every version of the theory has been based on the same April 11th newspaper article in the British communist newspaper, The Daily Worker. Journalist Dennis Ogden was responsible for the story and always claimed to have based it on a reliable inside source. But since he refused to name the source, it was impossible to verify the information.