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George Burchett

George Burchett is an artist who lives in Hanoi.

Wilfred Burchett, the CIA and an Attempted Bribery

Wilfred Burchett was vilified throughout most of his career as a communist propagandist and KGB for his fearless reporting on US wars, and the CIA thought he was for sale.

January 19th, 2018

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    George Burchett
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Wilfred Burchett

On 6 February 1976, in his syndicated column in the New York Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jack Anderson revealed to his readers that “the CIA once tried to bribe the Communist World’s most famous newsman, Wilfred Burchett, into defecting to the U.S. for $100,000.” The attempted bribe happened in Korea in September 1953,

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