Confessions of a Dangerous Mind [Was Chuck Barris of TV's Gong Show also a CIA assassin???]

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[Fred Mertz]

I heard a local interview on this about two weeks ago. It was an outlandish claim, and during the interview CB wouldn't address the details at all.

I'll check this thread tomorrow. Happy New Year Everybody!!

[chaosagent]

That's Hedley!

[summer]

Thank you for your response on this thread.

I am wondering now about the truthfulness of his CIA claim, mostly because of these two articles, below, especially the long autobiographical article from Salon.

Chuck Barris just seems to have been way too busy in his tv career to also have had time to go running around assassinating people for the CIA, despite his claim he murdered 33 people. I don’t know what to believe.

I just know that one my best friends from school was the only other female in the school who thought, as I did at the time, that Chuck Barris is definitely one of the sexiest men alive. And, if I am ever in so sick I have to be in a hospital, I want to be watching videotapes of the GONG SHOW! (I may even put that in my will.) :)

A current interview, Jan 1, 2003, from Jewsweek: CLICK HERE for this article:

From Jewsweek: The Viduy of Chuck Barris

The new film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is based on the life of Gong Show host Chuck Barris. In it the Jewish television legend claims he was a game show host by day and a CIA assassin by night. A Q&A with Barris helps clear the air ... a little.


Chuck Barris then.


Chuck Barris now.


BEING CHUCK BARRIS: Chuck Barris (right) and Sam Rockwell, who portrays Barris in the new film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

The lengthy autobiographical article about Chuck Barris from SALON, dated March 2001, can be seen if you CLICK HERE.:

From Salon: Chuck Barris
Long before "Survivor," the eccentric who created "The Gong Show" discovered that people will do anything to get on TV, and others will watch them….


Chuck Barris, Host of The Gong Show.

[Fintan]

GONG!!!

[mrustow]

After checking several Glenn Ford fan sites last night, I noticed that one mentioned "good will" tours Ford made to Vietnam. My hunch is that either through sloppiness or idolatrous exagerration, one of Ford's fans turned those "tours" into "tours of duty," maybe another fanatic turned them into service with the Green Berets, and the other fanatics merely copied the tall tale on their sites.

In any event, such fibbing was never necessary. The man served his country honorably in WWII. There's no need to turn him into a Superman.

[summer]

LOL....I always loved the cheap tackiness of that set because it was so perfect for the show. It looked like the set designer had a total budget of $50 and that was it.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I have no doubts that at least 33 people died from shear mental depravity from having to watch the gong show daily.

Maybe these are the 33 to which he is referring.

[summer]

LOL...

[Blue Jays]

Good Evening All-

Just watched Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and didn't find it to be too good of a movie...even if it is supposed to be based on a true story.

It might be interesting to read the Chuck Barris autobiography, but then again, I might then be subjecting myself to the rantings of a lunatic. Has any other CIA-related information surfaced since this thread was active last year?

~ Blue Jays ~

[summer]

Not that I know of.