# Chuck Barris - Assassin?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-barris-assassin/147712>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 10, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-barris-assassin/147712 "2003-01-10T09:17:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-barris-assassin/147712/21 "2003-01-27T12:33:05Z")

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Chuck Barris, CIA Assassin.

Man.

That… that stretches the mind.

That’s like trying to wrap your head around the concept of… of…

“Daffy Duck: Serial Rapist” or something, maybe…

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-barris-assassin/147712/22 "2003-01-27T14:36:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Fenris \*  
> \*\*Um…Barris was on the local morning show idiot’s show and Barris doesn’t seem to agree with you.
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> He said that it was A) real, B) he wouldn’t discuss anything in more detail and C) got pretty pissy and got weird (long pauses, rambling digressions not apropos of anything, etc) when pressed.
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> It was _not_ a “I’m playing coy to sell the book”-type interview, it was an “I’m suffering from a psychotic delusion and will snap if pressed” type interview. \*\*

He was on a local morning show here too and their newsguy asked him about the book. That time it was the “playing coy to sell the book” act; B) and some of C) were there, C) being just a ploy to avoid any answer. A) was not there at all. His last statement before taking calls - “Buy the book and decide for yourselves.”

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**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-barris-assassin/147712/23 "2003-01-28T07:36:35Z")

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If he really was a former CIA agent, wouldn’t there be a massively restrictive NDA preventing him from ever writing a book about?

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**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-barris-assassin/147712/24 "2003-01-28T14:28:59Z")

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Yes, he was a CIA assassin. His job was to preserve national secrets by hunting down and killing all of those who discovered the highly classified third “-gry” word.

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**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-barris-assassin/147712/25 "2003-01-30T02:36:43Z")

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Barris did deny the story in a televised interview with Connie Chung in 1984:

“I once applied for the CIA and while I was going through the process, I got a job and went off and did television. But I always wondered what would have happened if I did both.”

If that doesn’t convince you, try watching a couple of minutes of _The $1.98 Beauty Show._

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