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son’s associates and for two years after that, I was a leak. But eventually, I decided I could do a better job of writing.” McRae arranged to meet Anderson and offered to work for him. He was turned down. Then he volunteered to write for free. After a five month trial period, he was hired by the syndicated columnist. ‘They called me the leak who came in from the cold!”
And he nosed out the hot trails. According to McRae, he was the first to report on the Cyrus Vance-Zbigniew Brzezmski split. He predicted the bombing of the Iraqi reactor 11 months before it happened and reported the basic components of Reagan’s Middle East peace plan seven months before that information was officially released by the president.
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