Chuck Barris: Game Show Host and CIA Assassin?
Chuck Barris, the eccentric host of The Gong Show and producer of The Dating Game, claimed in his 1984 memoir Confessions of a Dangerous Mind that his entire television career was a cover for being a CIA assassin—a story so outlandish it was dismissed as fiction, yet one that forces
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