>According to the book John Wayne – The Man Behind The Myth, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Gerasimov told Wayne of the KGB plot in 1949. What the Duke and his Hollywood friends did to the hit squad is mind blowing. Obviously not one to let a thing like Communist assassins get him down, Wayne and his scriptwriter Jimmy Grant allegedly abducted the hitmen, took them to the beach, and staged a mock execution. No one knows exactly what happened after that, but Wayne’s friends say the Soviet agents began to work for the FBI from that day on.

Yeah, right. If Stalin's KGB wanted Wayne dead, he'd be dead, like dozens of far better guarded people all around the world were assassinated by his goons.

And that's all from a book with no evidence, based on a story told by Orson Wells to the author?

Sounds like something pulled out of the author's ass... They might as well write the chronicles of the Mars invansion Wells did a radio play of...

>A captured sniper in Vietnam claimed that he was hired by Chairman Mao to take the actor out on a visit to troops there.

Yeah, the book quickly gets into comedy territory...

Is this a parody piece or are people expected to believe this whole thing?