I Told Mattdamon He'd Be a Perfect Spy-If He Wasn't so Short, Fat, Pretty and White

Mail on Sunday › February 25, 2007

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It began with a meeting in Chelsea with the film producer Oliver Stone. 'I've bought your book on James Jesus Angleton and I'm going to film it,' he said rather pugnaciously. 'No you haven't, I replied. 'Yes I have,' he insisted.

We worked our way through two bottles of Pinot Noir before it turned out he'd bought a different book about James Jesus Angleton, the former head of counterintelligence for the CIA, whose biography I had written in 1991.

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I Told Mattdamon He'd Be a Perfect Spy-If He Wasn't so Short, Fat, Pretty and White

Then last year I took a call from a film director friend who said: 'Can I bring Matt Damon round to your place tomorrow? He's playing Angleton in the film of your book.' 'It's not my book,' I replied wearily, 'but bring him over anyway.' Damo...

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