\u201cThere is not a day that goes by that I am not haunted by these mistakes,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cI stand before you a shameful and broken man.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Simmons, who wore a blue suit and an American flag lapel pin, did not back down from his claims that he spent 27 years as an agency operative doing work so dangerous and secretive that it went entirely unrecorded. He said Friday that he lied his way into military contractor work to make use of a \u201cspecial skill set\u201d he implied was acquired undercover.<\/p>\n
Judge T.S. Ellis III was unconvinced.<\/p>\n
\u201cI read spy novels,\u201d the judge said before issuing his sentence. \u201cEvery spy novel has black-ops, off-the-books operations. Maybe these things exist.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that, like the many people Simmons fooled, he was initially impressed by the defendant\u2019s charisma and \u201cfascinated\u201d to see what proof Simmons would offer \u2014 only to get none. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Post goes on to explain that Simmons was discharged from the Navy for medical problems after a few weeks of training. Simmons claimed that he was recruited from basic training by the CIA. The CIA claims that they don’t recruit basic trainees. That admission alone screws up several phonies’ stories in our archives.<\/p>\n
Four former senior CIA officials interviewed by prosecutors said the dramatic undercover operations Simmons described were imaginary.<\/p>\n
David Cohen, a former director of the clandestine service, called the descriptions so \u201cfar-fetched\u201d and \u201cinconceivable\u201d that they were nothing more than a \u201cHollywood script.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m sure he’ll be able to entertain his new roommates in the Gray Bar Hotel with those tales, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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