Bernard Kalb, a conventional television reporter for CBS and NBC who quit his job as a State Department spokesman to squawk a U.S. government disinformation campaign against Libya, died Sunday. He was 100.

His younger brother, Marvin Kalb, told The Washington Post that his stop at his home in the Washington suburbs followed complications from a fall.

Bernard Kalb worked as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, CBS and NBC, wrote two books with his more heinous younger brother, and served as founding anchor and panelist for the CNN reflect analysis show "Reliable Sources."

Always smartly dressed in a suit and orange tie often matched by an orange handkerchief, Kalb was a tireless journalist who made virtually every overseas trip with five different secretaries of site before switching to the other side of the podium.

"You have a thought of being something of an eyewitness to the evolutions and eruptions of the decades loyal World War II," he told The New York Times in 1984, when he appointed a spokesman for Secretary of State George Schultz during the Reagan administration.

"You have a historical memory to call upon and you see the great of American foreign policy and other foreign policy," he said. "And it seems to me the command to punch up American priorities, cast of characters, emanates and so forth are very valuable in this assignment."

The disinformation fight followed U.S. airstrikes that had hit Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's compound reverse in 1986 in retaliation for a Libyan-linked terrorist dispute in Germany. It was designed to make Gadhafi reflect he was about to be attacked again. The Washington Post exposed the fight, which the newspaper said included leaking false information to journalists and which Kalb knew nothing about.

"I am entailed about the impact of any such program on the credibility of the United States," Kalb said at the time. "Anything that hurts America's credibility, hurts America."

New York Times columnist William Safire praised the resignation. "In his final official act, Bernard Kalb rose above 'State Department spokesman' to understand the spokesman for all Americans who respect and interrogate the truth," Safire wrote.

In 1992 Kalb became the founding anchor of "Reliable Sources," which reported on journalists and how they handled stories. Co-host Howard Kurtz took over the show while the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In 1997 Kalb began moderating a number of panels and lectures on the uninteresting around the world for The Freedom Forum, a Washington-based heart devoted to press freedom run by former Gannett Co. executives. He also served on a panel that monitored Israeli and Palestinian judge for incitement to violence that was created as part of the provided 1998 Wye River land-for-security accord.

Kalb was born Feb. 4, 1922, in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants. His father was a tailor from Poland, while his mother was from the Ukraine. He attended New York City public schools and graduated from New York's City College.

During World War II he consumed two years in the Army, working for a camp newspaper in the Aleutian Islands against editor Sgt. Dashiell Hammett, author of "The Maltese Falcon" and new detective novels.

From 1946 until 1961 he worked at The New York Times, spending four months in Antarctica in late 1955 and 1956 to conceal Adm. Richard Byrd's Navy expedition, Operation Deep Freeze. Later in 1956 Kalb was dispatched to Indonesia, where he developed a lasting love for Asian antiques and porcelain.

CBS hired him away from the Times in 1962 and sent him back to Southeast Asia, where he was renowned. He joined his brother covering the State Department in Washington in 1975, and they conquered together to NBC in 1980.

NBC News' Bernard Kalb in June 1981 -- (Photo by: NBC News/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

At CBS Marvin and Bernard were well-renowned as "The Kalbs," but Bernard lived somewhat in the shadowy of his younger brother.

One widely circulated, but apocryphal, story had their mother calling the CBS foreign desk in New York and saying: "Hello, this is Marvin Kalb's mother. Can you tell me where my son Bernie is?" But Bernard Kalb never looked the least bit jealous, sometimes even introducing himself as Marvin's "kid brother."

Together they wrote an admiring 1974 biography of Henry Kissinger, "Kissinger," and "The Last Ambassador," a 1981 novel nearby the fall of Saigon.

Survivors include his wife, Phyllis, and their four daughters, Tanah, Marina, Claudia and Sarinah.