Chilling Salon story documents the plight of a hapless journo who wrote an article that documented the history of the Ringling Brothers' Circus and ended up the victim of a campaign of harassment orchestrated by an ex-CIA spook in the circus's employ.
Get dirt on her, he said. Ruin her professionally … and why not personally, too? Perhaps they could recruit "a bodybuilder type" to seduce her and wreck her marriage, he told his sidekick, vice-president Charles Smith, according to depositions that would later be filed in court. Nothing's out of bounds. Spread rumors. Throw dirt. Report back to me personally on your progress right away, Feld was reported as saying. And for as long as it takes.
