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