PERSONALITIES - MCCARRY & THE MOVIES, ROUND 2

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100030071-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: May 29, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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McGarry & the Movies, Round 2
Most novelists complain when they see
their work up on the screen, but they never
give up hope and the movie money usually
is good. Maybe that's why Ch_ a=1es
I McGarry, a -former CIA a ent-turned-
nove ist, is about to sell another book "The
Last Suut-er " to the movies. A few years
ago his spy-genre novel, "Better Angels,"
was turned into what was generally agreed
was an awful movie called "Wrong Is Right"
starring Sean Connery and Katharine Ross.
McGarry is philosophical about that film,
saying, "A book is a book. A film is a film."
McGarry, who is a National Geographic _
,, ti ,.,o.~ at
'. around hIS creation, agent Paul Christo-
veat ~v as-written five novels centerin
2()-year-old boy comes up and throws his
arms around your neck and kisses you and
cries, 'Grandpa!' You realiz earsabeforer
daughter attended an orgy y
You don't know who else was at the party
and this is the result. But he looks vaguely
familiar.? -
the CIA. Although he as ig er p
tions this time, McGarry has .a unique de-
scription about his first reaction to the
movie "Wrong Is Right":
"It was like walking into a party and a
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