ROBERT BROWN AND HIS COLORFUL JOURNAL OF WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000201100010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 30, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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messages.anda phone ihat.seIdorcx stopped nag -. uetwor sttowsasToday Good ~doru
~`:Ott-the wail;behi~~,the desk--was a_hu a ing lmenca..Doaslrle and Tomor
.4nscape eYt; to t=:a; heavy brass spitto n . `said the caption Inside'." were political pr.sore s :rows xs"; ~ s
S~ns'?vere every here:- :.Torhen You:ve Got'Erri ^-rheld by secret=policeof (the]Pol Pot governnent; d::;nsdalIp?rtaterviewers-have
s e Y_TheirfiearsAti .Ztifinds Wild Fo}Iow' which., ruled Cambodia front 17 April 197 to 6 .discovered`thatfor-all thegarishneas
.-d---: Jots-The Array T-nvel To Distaift. Lands... 'anuary1979, : .~' of ?zisoffzce and theprima1 nature of-
~r t,`Exorc;;'Inzeresttn Peoolt' ' Aad Brown-s magazineappeaI; to-mercenaries {or .tits rsagazlne?$rawn issometh1r of
'meres I and an even.largernumber of arm, chait ?a coniradictiorr Although`he rs pia:
-r? . adventurers 4horn Bmwn?aiid hisstaffrefer to as _ ane; and does'havira kaack.for get
P.aber'rK Bro lientenantcoloriel; EFSYArTny ?fheWaIter?ditty. types."Tough a's nails si bile as tug Skoa1 juice oh- his chia'whtle
Rwe: ve sat witlthis cowboy boots propped up on the sound of an AK47 ;being cocked; his publica. a1=119 for that spittoon, he is a well.-
-t *edes c~iafrontoethemoonscape?talkingonthe!! lion is a nuts-andbolts war journal that tells the ;'edam+ted,-well-read, well-spoken ex',,_
phone: He was also-putting?oat another issue of way it was in Vietz am according to ttie inen who 'wa or who; is, at2imes,.even g;a-
Soldi2rof Fortune magazine;whicti hasbeenvan -_; werethere?andcarri es stories by_correspondents'',ctons ''Regardless`: of. ",his stin'icing
_ouly d crbed as a handyman's guide tabIoody ii-current hot: spots all over the' world: It features; poh he ? 100" percent honest,"
Way s, wee'pond, .terrorists~paratnedtca2 lun- classifieds_on mercenary:opportunites in foreign SAYS Robert Millera Boulderlawyer
g!arescue and mefcs-jand:"an eerie new crack to lands and inailorder advertisements for tear~a& who has owm Bro~?for 20 years.
the+ Ameriean:mindspace'-throug which fry canisters;:shoulder+:holsters,-knives and"subma ."Hehasprinciplzs-and:whetheryour
cook; and carsalesmen gaze like:voyeurs trans-?-chine guns: I'~sletters column is called "Flak." think
good .bad or indtffer~?
fix ttoowar d ~gut of ngola Rhodesia and _In'1976, both the itmagazine and its founder fig- heneverbetraysthem."
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usedtn an'internationals incident;whenDanteirt:.: ,, ?!
-`'Tve been called.t a igeiof death,. but'that s Gearhart, 34 married; and the father of foursmalf-I
3-"says Bro asieg anethet streamof?Skoal children; was executed by a firing squad in An;o-:
jo:ce-int6tbe'sptttoo-n"-an^d:wiping-his chin=-with la Gearhart was an-American mercenarywho:
-the back ofhis?ha' xt. "We-glorify-the warrior Ill, had found- employment. in:Angola by running-an=
"Almost since its 1'tcep*iotr in 1g75,13ro-crt and been=called just about everything front the:"king
-hismagazine?have been'-subbectsof controversy .of mercenaries" to a CIA agent. a"bloodless' sicko
- Lri only-its secon'&' issce-Brow r Rub1ished a.full in n the throes of male menopause" to a man"who
page photograph: oI:a,ithodesian=gt:'eF illa,-dead has-fired fromthe gut about what's.right.with
-,;ithhisrt;hr;eyeslos aacliheleftoneajara. America" All of which hasn't-fazed"Robert-K_.~
gaping holeshad-bee blow's u the-man's fore- Brown in theleast -to wit this exchange. in.OUI
-Lead-and: a-fly was; chedrmpasstve1y on his magazine -' "~ +~:.
';rise: Januarf'covet"s~sesved.'a'smalI pyramid of ~~= f}tII .You are disliked by- the FBT and the-:
sknllsand bones-that c1 beettpulled from water Arabs- ten t you worrie that = omeone s gnwg to t
hails,on-the outskirts-O%-Phnom-.Penh.,. Most??. ""?_._ ...
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
30 MARCH 1931
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motions to the magazine. "Ou magazth
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everythiag;'m--going, toy-become a
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