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George Burchett

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

By George Burchett

Wilfred Burchett, the CIA and an Attempted Bribery

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

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George Burchett

George Burchett

George Burchett is an artist who lives in Hanoi.

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