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,
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.
