"Austin Goodrich, 87; was CIA spy, CBS correspondent" by Matt Schudel | Washington Post, July 08, 2013
Austin Goodrich, an undercover CIA officer during the Cold War who also worked for several years as a CBS television correspondent before his identity was unmasked, died June 9 at his home in Port Washington, Wis. He was 87.
He had Alzheimer’s disease, his daughter Kristina Goodrich said....
While stationed in Oslo and Stockholm early in his clandestine career, he sought a suitable occupation to cover his true profession. He assumed a dual identity as reporter and spy....
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Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Who would have ever thought I was reading intelligence agency propaganda all these years?
In those days, according to 1977 investigative reports by Rolling Stone and The New York Times, it was not uncommon for CIA officers to conceal their occupation by working as part-time foreign correspondents or stringers.
Or now.
Reporters for legitimate news organizations were sometimes debriefed by spy agencies after overseas assignments. Such cozy arrangements lasted, in some cases, into the 1970s, when they were increasingly seen as unethical....
As if the Amerikan media is no longer a government mouthpiece! Pffft!
When the story came to light in 1976, it was one of the first public revelations of the identity of an undercover CIA officer. It effectively ended Mr. Goodrich’s work as a spy....
His marriage to Eva Rosenberg Goodrich ended in divorce....
After his formal retirement, Mr. Goodrich continued to work on contract for the CIA for a number of years before settling in Wisconsin.
They got you for life, folks. There is no "former" CIA.
In later years, he contributed an essay to ‘‘Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul,’’ and he wrote several self-published books, mostly about his career.
In one book, ‘‘Born to Spy,’’ which was reviewed by CIA censors, Mr. Goodrich described his training in lock-picking....
He was also a CIA-trained crook.
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