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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Link to: How Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light transformed into the CIA's Argo covert op

This is probably old news to the people here, but Boing Boing has a piece on how Lord of Light was used in a ruse to scout the Iranian Embassy hostage crisis back in 1979.

I touched on it briefly in the first part of my Lord of Light commentary, but this goes into much greater detail.
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4 comments:

  1. Chris DeVitoOctober 17, 2012 at 12:37 PM

    Here's a detailed insider account from the guy who ran the operation:

    https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art1.html

    And here's a clip of the same guy describing it:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQJa4xk5rss

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  2. JugularjoshOctober 18, 2012 at 7:12 AM

    Wow, you're really on top of this. Did you have those on hand or did you come across them since I made this post?

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  3. Chris DeVitoOctober 18, 2012 at 7:51 PM

    I'd like to say that this is just another example of my dazzling research skills, but actually all the info is in The Collected Stories of RZ, Vol. 4, pp. 550-551 ("Lord of Light Meets the CIA") and p. 569, refs. 78-81. So it's just another example of Chris Kovacs' dazzling research skills.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 19, 2012 at 4:48 PM

    Thanks for the acknowledgment!

    Chris

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