John Rizzo (above), 34-year CIA
employee, is breaking the organization’s code of silence to
expose the government organization’s darkest secrets for the very first time.
Chief among his bombshell revelations is the
suggestion that Hollywood and Washington are much closer than anyone has
previously thought: exchanging money, information — and in one staggering case
— a request for $50,000 of cocaine!
In his new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis
in CIA, whistleblower Rizzo,
who served as the acting general counsel for the entire CIA, admits, “the CIA has long had a special relationship
with the entertainment industry, devoting considerable attention to fostering
relationships with Hollywood
movers and shakers: studio executives, producers, directors and big-name
actors.”
“There are officers assigned to this account
full-time,” he reveals, adding many
Hollywood denizens offer up information to their country — at a price.
Movie industry vets are “receptive to helping the
CIA in any way they can,” Rizzo claims, “probably in equal parts because they
are sincerely patriotic and because it gives them a taste of real-life
intrigue and excitement.”
On the other hand, for the government, “their power
and international celebrity can be valuable,” Rizzo explains. “It gives them
entrée to people and places abroad. Heads of state want to meet and get cozy
with them.”
“But things can get complicated,” he admits.
In one instance, Rizzo claims, the agency was
approached blindly by “a major film star at the time” who “somehow knew that
another big star’s production company had an association with the CIA’s
clandestine service over the years … Now this guy was offering his own name and
services to us. Free of charge. Anything he could do. Just out of patriotic
duty.”
But it wasn’t exactly a case of no-strings-attached,
Rizzo would soon find out.
“As our guy related his story, I wondered to myself,
why is he telling me this?” he admits. “It all sounded perfectly fine to me. It
was kind of cool actually. And then he got to the kicker.”
“There is one
little kicker,” Rizzo claims his underling said. “The actor refuses to take any
money, but he told us that instead all he wants of us is to score him the best
fifty-thousand-dollar stash
of cocaine we can find. He seems to think we can get the real primo
stuff.
So that’s why I’m here. Is it ok for us to do it?”
What do you think happened?

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