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The Gong Show Host Was a CIA Assassin?
The Clarksvillian ^
| October 19, 2021
| Valerie D'Orazio
Posted on 10/19/2021 11:39:56 AM PDT by dmam2011
There’s a lot happening in the world right now, so let’s get the most pressing stuff out of the way and sorted: was the late Gong Show creator/host Chuck Barris really an assassin for the CIA?
Barris claimed in his 1982 memoir Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind to have been secretly working for the intelligence organization during the sixties and seventies—around the same time he was developing kitschy and iconic television shows like The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show. Is it possible that the unassuming and at-times silly Barris could be telling the truth here—or was this all an attention-seeking hoax by an expert performer?
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Military/Veterans; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: assassination; attentionwhore; chuckbarris; cia; datinggame; gongshow; movies; murraylangston; newlywedgame; nitwit; nonext; thedatinggame; thegongshow; thenewlywedgame; theunknowncomic; tv
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:39:56 AM PDT
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dmam2011
To: dmam2011
I always wondered about Alex Trebek...and Gene Rayburn...myself.
To: dmam2011
It made a good movie with Sam Rockwell............................
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:43:01 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: dmam2011
Given the heroic deeds of Brian Williams, I find it totally believable that Barris was a cia assassin.
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:45:52 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Trump won.)
To: dmam2011
Was Merv Griffin the Elevator Killer?
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:45:56 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Bill Cullen always looked like a criminal mastermind. So did Bob Barker.
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:46:52 AM PDT
by
Luke21
To: dmam2011
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine!!
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:47:15 AM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
To: Veggie Todd
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:48:24 AM PDT
by
Quilla
To: Gay State Conservative
Trebek was definitely one of the Men In Black
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:49:16 AM PDT
by
Salamander
("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
To: Ken H
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:49:33 AM PDT
by
Salamander
("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
To: dmam2011
The movie about this was pretty interesting.
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:50:12 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(When government fears the people, there is liberty. Don't forget his cohort)
To: Luke21
We call a neighbors dog “Bob Barker”...Can you guess why???LOL
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:50:20 AM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: Luke21
Bob Barker gave me the creeps.
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:50:23 AM PDT
by
Salamander
("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
To: Ken H
there is a rumor that Pee Wee Herman was a “for hire” assassin...
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:51:26 AM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: Gay State Conservative
>>I always wondered about Alex Trebek<<
I cannot imagine a more frightening sight than coming home to find Alex Trebek (when he was alive of course) sitting in your armchair with a Luger pointed at you.
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:52:17 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
To: dmam2011
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:53:05 AM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: JBW1949
because he bobs for apples?
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:53:53 AM PDT
by
Bob434
In an interview on NBC’s Today Show in 1984, Barris admitted to having made the story up. “No, I was never a CIA hit man. I never did those things. I once applied for the CIA, and while I was going through the process I got a job and went on television. But I had always wondered what would have happened if I had done both.”[13][14] In an interview in 2010 with the Television Academy Foundation, he was asked if he had ever disclosed the truth to anyone, including his wife. “No, never,” Barris said. “I’ll never say, one way or the other”.[15][16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Barris#CIA_career_claims
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posted on
10/19/2021 11:56:11 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: dmam2011
To: Gay State Conservative
I always wondered about Alex Trebek I have no idea why everyone forgets Alex Trebek's show "High Roller" (TV game show version of Craps).
He came across as a bit bubble-headed on that show. Ruta Lee always kicked up her leg when he kissed her at the beginning of the show. She was five years older, and was already in her mid-40s when the show came on, try to glam things up.
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posted on
10/19/2021 12:04:31 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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