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Mar 24, 2017 · Two decades ago, producer Andrew Lazar acquired the rights to Chuck Barris‘ memoir C onfessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Biography. Stranger than fiction, the 1984 book detailed The...
Feb 7, 2003 · Barris says he received an award from the CIA “for outstanding service,” which provoked him to muse about “the strange dichotomy of being crucified by my peers for attempting to entertain people and lauded by my peers for killing them.”
Mar 22, 2017 · Barris took the CIA's response as tacit confirmation, noting, “Have you ever heard the CIA acknowledge someone was an assassin?”
- Jayme Deerwester
"Chuck Barris has never been employed by the CIA and the allegation that he was a hired assassin is absurd," Crispell added. Barris, who offered no corroboration of his claims, was unmoved.
In the book he states that he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an assassin in the 1960s and the 1970s in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. A 2002 feature film version, directed by George Clooney and starring Sam Rockwell, depicts Barris killing 33 people.
Mar 22, 2017 · Barris loaded ’60s and ’70s television with game shows, and later made waves when in an autobiography he claimed to be an assassin for the CIA, which the agency flatly denied. This book was adapted...
Mar 23, 2017 · He later wrote an autobiography, "Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind," in which he claimed to have been an CIA assassin, an assertion the CIA called absurd.
