Blind Item #8 - A Birdie Blind Item
When it comes to celebrity suicides, there is often an element of the inexplicable. Not so much, this one. If the cache of files - obtained through years of surveillance, and statements from at least one defector - are ever released, you'll know that his spying went beyond walking into a certain embassy, drunk, this one time. He believed that he might end up like the famous/notorious couple, which is a sad irony. It's not that they had stopped bugging his phones, and reading his mail - especially at the western retreat - but he was by then a has-been, professionally speaking, and otherwise. Not even the intelligence community cared about him anymore.
22 comments:
Scalia
"walking into a certain embassy, drunk, this one time."
Everyone has to start somewhere
Randy Quaid? Is he dead now? I don't remember .
Randy Quaid is still living.
I guess the famous couple is the Rosenbergs, who were executed for spying. So this must be someone who is much older.
Moe Berg? The movie is out now.
Edward McBride/Scio?
Hunter S. Thompson?
Could it be Hemingway?
Fuck, I know this...someone who claimed to be drunk when spied going into a Russian embassy. Off to research, it's out there somewhere.
Oswald
Mikhail Lesin?
http://observer.com/2016/03/another-defector-dead-in-washington/
Still, not very interesting.
+1
Scientology but Phillip Seymore Hoffman came to mind. I dunno why.
Thompson publicly threatened suicide for years
Manipulated his wife it
Papadopoulos?
Got it.
"his father was a Pentecostal minister who press-ganged his enormous brood of children into service as the Singing Callicoats—a gospel act best known for having saved Ed Sullivan from humiliation by breaking into an unscheduled second number when a chimp act went badly wrong during a live TV show. Phil Callicoat had turned up at the Soviet Embassy seeking advice on how to defect, but his motives had less to do with politics and more to do with having drunk the last of his $120 savings in an all-night Tokyo jazz bar."
http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/operation-chaos-untold-cold-war-story/
Edward McBride https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/questions-over-scientologys-19-calls-in-48-hours-before-110000volt-suicide-20091027-hih7.html
@Darwinite - Not sure Callicoat is that level of celebrity.
Another Tack:
Actors known to visit Bohemian Grove:
Albert, Eddie
Crosby, Bing
Heston, Charlton
none are known suicides.
Rosenberg's for the couple. Celebrity death? No idea
Sounds like Hemingway to me...
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