[summer]

Well, I would really like to know what FR posters think of Chuck Barris' claim that in addition to hosting my favorite tv show of all time, The Gong Show, he was also a CIA assassin.

I hear he now lives in France, in St. Topez, with his wife.

I got into a big conversation about this book with someone over dinner. I believe Chuck Barris when he says he was a CIA assassin. But, what do you think about his claim?

I will check back tomorrow. Happy New Year!

[EGPWS]

I got into a big conversation about this book with someone over dinner. I believe Chuck Barris when he says he was a CIA assassin. But, what do you think about his claim?

BOOOOONNNNGGGGG!!!!!!...next?

[Balata]

Check this out, Dr. Ruth as a sniper.

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:n6YPIBaUBxQC:www.zianet.com/desertx/feb98/ruth.html+Dr.+Ruth+sniper&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

"RW: You and I, talking about it, and working on it. People are realizing - look what we have lived through now - first of all, fifty years ago, the state of Israel was created. When I went to then-Palestine, and was a sniper - I never killed anybody but I myself was badly wounded - would I have thought that fifty years later I would celebrate the fifty years of Israel? Never. Would I have thought that the Berlin Wall would come tumbling down, that there is no more Russia, but only former Soviet Union?! So I am very much of an optimist."

[AuntB]

The Gong Show...wow. My son was 2 or 3 years old when it was on...he's 26 now (Lord, I'm old!)....anyway, he got a paper bag, filled it with hats and everyday he would wait in front of the TV for it to come on. He lived for the thing! One day, on a trip, we stopped in a Pizza Parlor, where they had one of those riding, quarter per horsies that was out of order...over the coin deposit holder they had a paper bag with "out of order" written on it. My child disappears and there he is...with the bag on his head, screaming, HEY!!! CHUCKIE BABY!!! Everyone but me thought it was funny.....

[mfulstone]

Back in the 70s, I heard a similar story about him from someone who had a deathly fear of him. She believed that Barris was one of the gov't agents that had destroyed her family. After investigations her claims about other things, I began to believe her.

[NC Conservative]

[Benrand]

Bobby Van and Bert Convy were actually KGB double agents. That's why they are dead...

ANd from my contacts, I understand that that guy Mike from those bad infomercials is really Osama Bin Laden...you don't see that guy anymore, do you?

[Waco]

"Mission Impossibile" may have been much more true to life than we kew?

[DeFault User]

Chuck Barris....

The Unknown Spook?

err, was that when Jerry Lewis was head of the CIA?

[TransOxus]

When I read the Barris book years ago, my reaction was it seemed far-fetched and another of his pranks. But then I wondered why some of the passages didn't flow "smoothly" as I read it - like some censor had taken scissors to cut out passages in some pages!!! Should read it again to see if I still get the same impression.

[tophat9000]

Barris was actually traveling to exotic locales to knock off America's Cold War foes.

I guess that would be giving them “The Gong” with extreme prejudges

[Eva]

My husband once received a letter from an exemployee who wanted his old job back. He said that he had been using the job as a cover while working as an assassin for the CIA and had quit to take an assignment. He claimed that he was fed up with working for the government and decided that he liked the old job.

[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!!

[Fintan]

GONG!!!

[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.

[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 ~